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Bryce Courtenay is the bestselling author of The Power of One, Tandia, April Fool's Day, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, Solomon's Song, Jessica, A Recipe for Dreaming, The Family Frying Pan, The Night Country, Smoky Joe's Cafe, Four Fires, Matthew Flinders' Cat, Brother Fish, Whitethorn, Sylvia, The Persimmon Tree, Fishing for Stars, The Story of Danny Dunn, Fortune Cookie and Jack of Diamonds.
Bryce Courtenay AM passed away in November 2012, aged seventy-nine, at his home in Canberra.
Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised making him an outsider. And so begins some of life's tougher lessons for the small, lonely boy.
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- PublisherViking Australia
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0670070416
- ISBN 13 9780670070411
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 682 pages. Cover wornFrom Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel a bout Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply div ided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and Sout h Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Si x-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orpha nage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany. Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons for the small, lonel y boy. Like the whitethorn, one of Africa's most enduring plants, Tom learns how to survive in the harsh climate of racial hatred. Then a terrible event sends him on a journey to ensure that just ice is done. On the way, his most unexpected discovery is love. Seller Inventory # 2532c
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Book Description Condition: Good. From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English.The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany.Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons for the small, lonely boy. Like the whitethorn, one of Africa's most enduring plants, Tom learns how to survive in the harsh climate of racial hatred. Then a terrible event sends him on a journey to ensure that justice is done. On the way, his most unexpected discovery is love. 696 pages. Seller Inventory # 1113005
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