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This is one of the best books I have read. I gave copies to both of my sons as young teens. They are now grown with families of their own. And to this day they each keep their copy to read from time to time for inspiration and reminder. Jan
A compelling tale of a young boy's refusal to be demoralized by fearful racial torment; of the discovery that loyalty, strength and courage can be fused in the 'power of one' so that nothing worthy of achievement lies beyond his grasp. The Christian Science Monitor
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 aparteid were newly sewn. Therre 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 welter-weight 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 ould sustain him even when it appeared the villainy would rule the world; The Power of One.
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
A compelling tale of a young boy's refusal to be demoralized by fearful racial torment; of the discovery that loyalty, strength and courage can be fused in the 'power of one' so that nothing worthy of achievement lies beyond his grasp. The Christian Science Monitor
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 aparteid were newly sewn. Therre 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 welter-weight 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 ould sustain him even when it appeared the villainy would rule the world; The Power of One.
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
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