The power of one
Afrikaners
Boxing
South africa, fiction
South Africa
Loneliness
Apartheid
War stories
Self-confidence
Boarding schools
Prejudices
Courage
Prisons
World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Fiction, war & military
Sports
Adventure and adventurers
Historical fiction
Conduct of life
Children
World War, 1939-1945
Juvenile fiction
History
Fiction
Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
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