Power of One, The by Courtenay, Bryce - 1989

Used, Very Good condition,

In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language-English, the language spoken by those who has sent the Afrikaners to the world's first concentration camps during the Boer War. He was suckled by a woman of the wrong color-black, the color of fear and disdain. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment. Yet he vowed to survive-he would become welter-weight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams.