AJ Dunn Reads

  The Power of One By Bryce Courtenay   I thought this book would be about something entirely different based on what I read on the back cover. Peekay is an English boy growing up in South Africa during the end of World War II and the apartheid. When very young he is bullied at school to the point where he learns to close himself off from others, but he meets a few people who give him lasting life advice. The main person being a welterweight boxer who tells him to think with his head before thinking with his heart. As he grows he has the goal of being a world welterweight boxing champion and that driving goal drives the decisions he makes. Peekay is extremely intelligent beyond his years and is doted on by teachers outside of his schooling, but he also becomes the project of a German pianist named Doc. Peekay grows up around racism and benefits from apartheid, though he makes friends with several Africans throughout his life, and is a more liberal thinker than most of the peop...