The Power of One - Softcover

Courtenay, Bryce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345359925 ISBN 13: 9780345359926

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1992

Synopsis

A young boy becomes an inspiring symbol for black and white as he experiences an odyssey through pro-Nazi South Africa during World War II. Reissue. Movie tie-in. NYT.

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Review:

"It's hard to imagine a reader delivering his audience so completely to a foreign locale as Humphrey Bower does in this coming-of-age novel based in South Africa. Unfolding against a backdrop of the most pernicious racism, the story follows the growth of the poor young white boy, Peekay, whose growth to adulthood parallels his country's struggle toward justice. Americans in particular are in for a treat in hearing their native tongue rendered in so rich a variety of exotic accents from the lips of Boers, Englishmen, and Zulu tribesmen. So effective is Bower that listeners find themselves anticipating the idioms of the various characters, unfamiliar turns of phrase that soon enough sound completely natural." (AudioFile Magazine)

Book Description:

An exhilarating epic of a triumph of the heart.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0345359925
• ISBN 13: 9780345359926
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback