No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.
The Power of One
โ Scribed by Bryce Courtenay
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Australia;Laurel-Leaf Books
- Year
- 2014;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 543 KB
- Edition
- Young readers' condensed ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307786846
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โฆ Synopsis
First with your head and then with your heart ...
To Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, this is a piece of advice that he will carry with him throughout his life.
Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, the Judge, Peekay will fight to the death for justice.
Bryce Courtenay's classic bestseller is a story of the triumph of the human spirit โ a spellbinding tale for all ages.
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