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The Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay | Literature & Fiction
Registered by wingliteraDivawing of Bremen, Bremen Germany on Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Average 10 star rating by BookCrossing Members 

status (set by JPix): to be read


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Journal Entry 1 by wingliteraDivawing from Bremen, Bremen Germany on Tuesday, April 12, 2011

10 out of 10


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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 wingliteraDivawing at Bremen, Bremen Germany on Thursday, June 30, 2011

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Released 11 mos ago (7/1/2011 UTC) at Bremen, Bremen Germany

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Journal Entry 3 by wingJPixwing at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Saturday, July 16, 2011

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Brilliant, thanks for the RABCK literaDiva! This book is one of the BBC Big Read top 200 that I am reading my way though. 



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