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      The Power of One

      by Bryce Courtenay
      Published
      Jun 1989
      Main Genre
      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
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      533
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      In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language--English, the language spoken by those who had sent the Afrikaners to the world's first concentration camps during the Boer War. He was suckled by a woman of the wrong color--black, the color of fear and disdain. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment. Yet he vowed to survive--he would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams.

      But his dreams were nothing compared to what awaited him. For he embarked on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice, where he would learn the power of words, the power to transform lives; and the mystical power that would sustain him even • when it appeared that villainy would rule the world: The Power of One.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Action Adventure Hard-Boiled Mystery

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      Young Adult / Teens

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