The sharp racial issue of the time is multiplied with the issue of same-sex relationships. The Baldwin’s novel is a poetic exploration of reality he lived in. These people are not very happy their lives fail, and they look for things everyone else is looking for: ways to escape from loneliness, to find understanding, and some crumbs of love. Although it is 21st century now, the novel acquaints us with people so similar to us and their life problems appear to be the same in spite of the fact more than a half century passed. There is simply an American society of 1960s shown through the prism of taboo themes by the Afro-American writer, which in turn seems to be so obnoxious. Thus, there is no depravity in the novel even though one can admit the opposite. This is the right book, in spite of so many "wrong" relationships between its characters: a black man and a white woman a white guy and a black girl a white guy and a black guy a white guy and a white guy several betrayals one suicide one ruined family many difficult families. But what if it is simply the other side of prosperous America, where racial problems, problems of sexual minorities, family problems, finding oneself questions still turn around? The novel inwardly puts into shivering, hence deserves to be marked as an admirable guide to the backstreets of dark souls of humans and society they live in. This country mixes such a wide range of problems people have been facing since Baldwin’s times until the present moment. James Baldwin’s Another country remains a “country” people know almost nothing about so far. “ Love was a country he knew nothing about.”
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