num_pages: 304
description: In 1939, hatred 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. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong color–black. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment. Yet he vowed to survive–he would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams. But his dreams were nothing compared to what awaited him. 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.Episodic and bursting with incident, this sprawling memoir of an English boy's lonely childhood in South Africa during WW II pays moderate attention to questions of race but concerns itself primarily with epic melodrama.--Publishers Weekly
language: English
title: The Power of One
titlecomplete: The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
characters: Geel Piet, Miss Bornstein, Mrs. Boxall, Morris Levy, The Judge, "Doc" Bradley Stanwick, Peekay
genres: Young Adult, Literature, Africa, Coming Of Age, South Africa, Classics, Historical, Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 87546
places: South Africa
series: The Power of One
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Older Readers
publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers