![]() ![]() Peekay also speaks several African languages, and throughout the novel, he consistently sees the black people around him as full human beings. To the Boers, he is a rooinek (meaning red-neck, after the English soldiers' sunburned necks), whereas to the English, his ability to speak Afrikaans and his love of boxing mark him as someone who is not a true gentleman. ![]() Peekay finds himself caught between the two worlds. Loosely based on Courtenay's own biography, The Power of One follows a small, weak, English-speaking white child as he navigates a world where the strong dominate the weak, where the white population keeps the black population in a state of semi-slavery, and where the two major white ethnic groups, the English and the Afrikaans-speaking Boer, are locked in a struggle for power. It was first published in 1989 in Great Britain and Australia, as well as the United States. The Power of One is the first novel by Bryce Courtenay, a writer who was born in South Africa but has lived in Australia since 1958. ![]()
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