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Too Late the Phalarope
First US edition (publ. Scribner)
AuthorAlan Paton
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
Genrenovel
Set inSouth Africa
PublisherJonathan Cape (RSA)
Publication date
1953
Media typePrint (hard~ & paperback)
Pages276
ISBN9780140032161
Preceded byCry, the Beloved Country 
Followed byAh, but Your Land Is Beautiful 

Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing Cry, the Beloved Country. It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful in 1981.

The summary on the dust jacket of the first UK edition reads, in part; 'The setting is again South Africa, but the tragedy this time is of a white man who, for complicated reasons, some of them not unconnected with his childhood and training, succumbs to the very temptations he might have been thought strong enough to resist. His downfall is recorded by his father's sister who watched the train of events, half foreseeing the danger yet unable to prevent it, and now in anguish blames herself.'[1]

The main character is Afrikaner policeman Pieter van Vlaanderen. While usually enforcing the country's laws, he eventually breaks the apartheid law outlawing sex between blacks and whites.

Phalaropes are shore birds found in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.

  1. ^ Paton, Alan (1953), Too Late the Phalarope, London: Jonathan Cape.

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