The power of one

Bryce Courtenay First published 1989

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • adventure and adventurers
  • afrikaners
  • apartheid
  • boarding schools
  • boxing
  • boxing stories
  • children
  • conduct of life
  • courage
  • fiction
  • fiction, war & military
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • history, 1909-1961
  • juvenile fiction
  • loneliness
  • prejudices
  • prisons
  • self-confidence
  • south africa
  • south africa, fiction
  • sports
  • success in children
  • war stories
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • world war, 1939-1945, fiction