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WHITE THORN

WHITE THORN

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WHITE THORN: A Novel of Africa

by COURTENAY, BRYCE

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  • Hardcover
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ISBN 10
067002922X
ISBN 13
9780670029228
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Book is yellowing from edges inwards. Cover creased.

Synopsis

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 frantically 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.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
12333
Title
WHITE THORN
Author
COURTENAY, BRYCE
Format/Binding
Soft card cover illustrated
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
None
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition, First Impression
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
067002922X
ISBN 13
9780670029228
Publisher
Penguin / Viking
Place of Publication
Victoria, Australia
Date Published
2005
Pages
683 plus sources, glossary, and acknowledgements
Size
238x158x60mm
Keywords
S Africa, Boys Town.
Bookseller catalogs
novel;

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