The power of one

By Bryce Courtenay

Subjects: South africa, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Historical Fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Self-confidence, Apartheid, Loneliness, Sports, World War, 1939-1945, Prejudices, Success in children, Boarding schools, Children, Prisons, Boxing stories, Fiction, Courage, Boxing, Afrikaners, History, 1909-1961, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, War stories, History, SOUTH AFRICA, Adventure and adventurers

Description: Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.