Too Late the Phalarope, and Cry, the Beloved Country.
One of this author's characters is written out of the family Bible by his father Jakob and persuaded not to commit suicide by his friend Kappie.  One of this author's novels contains series of letters by an undercover Nazi, a "Proud White Christian Woman", and Justice Department official Gabriel van Onselen.  That novel also includes a school headmaster who leaves teaching to enter politics and a woman who is repeatedly arrested for entering a library, Robert Mansfield and Prem Bodasingh.  This author of a novel about Pieter van Vlaanderen and the play Sponono also wrote a novel in which Gertrude turns to prostitution and Absalom's moral destruction by Johannesburg grieves his father Stephen.  FTP, name this author of the short story collection Tales from a Troubled Land and the novels Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful, Too Late the Phalarope, and Cry, the Beloved Country.
One of this author's characters is written out of the family Bible by his father Jakob and persuaded not to commit suicide by his friend Kappie.  
Alan Paton