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The Power of One is a novel by South African born, Australian author Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an English boy, who through the course of the story, acquires the name of Peekay.
The Power of One: A Novel. Paperback – September 29, 1996. by Bryce Courtenay (Author) 4.6 4,833 ratings. Part of: Power of One (2 books) See all formats and editions. “The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”. –The New York Times.
In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born.
A short summary of Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Power of One.
The Power of One. Kindle Edition. 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.
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.
For he embarked on an epic journey, where he would learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the mystical power that would sustain him even when it appeared that villainy would rule the world: The Power of One.
The Power of One, a novel by Bryce Courtenay, was first published in 1989 and follows the life of Peekay, a young boy growing up in apartheid-era South Africa. Against a backdrop of racial tension, Peekay overcomes personal hardships and discovers his own strength through boxing.
Freelance writer Paul Witcover discusses some of the key historical events that make up the backdrop of the novel The Power of One. What follows are his essays “The Boer War,” “World War II in South Africa” and “Origins and Early History of Apartheid.”
A weak and friendless boy growing up in South Africa during World War II, Peekay turns to two older men, one black and one white, to show him how to find the courage to dream, to succeed, to triumph over a world when all seems lost, and to inspire him to summon up the most irrersistible force of all: the Power of One.