The Power of One

by Bryce Courtenay | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0335410054 Global Overview for this book
Registered by literaDiva on 4/12/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by literaDiva on Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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"UNABASHEDLY UPLIFTING . . . Asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence — `the power of one´ — can prevail." The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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 suckeled 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 wolr, 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 prejustice, 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.


Journal Entry 2 by literaDiva at Bremen, Bremen Germany on Thursday, June 30, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (7/1/2011 UTC) at Bremen, Bremen Germany

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Journal Entry 3 by JPix at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Saturday, July 16, 2011
Brilliant, thanks for the RABCK literaDiva! This book is one of the BBC Big Read top 200 that I am reading my way though.

Journal Entry 4 by JPix at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I thought this book was fantastic, 10 out of 10.

Journal Entry 5 by JPix at -- Somewhere in Bristol 🤷‍♂️, Bristol United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (7/28/2012 UTC) at -- Somewhere in Bristol 🤷‍♂️, Bristol United Kingdom

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Given to a friend in Bristol on the weekend we went to see some rainy Olympic archery at Lords.

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