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The Power of One

This is both coming-of-age-ordeal and Cry Freedom revisited, with glorious veldt scenes...

...tells the story of a young English-speaking boy who is sent to an Afrikaans language boarding school, where a neo-Nazi clique makes his life miserable. He fights back, and keeps fighting back...

...a compelling historical fiction that uses the story of its protagonist to make its complex historical framework come grippingly alive.