Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

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One of my all-time favourite stories with a powerful and hopeful message. The movie version is good as a movie but it doesn’t reflect all that’s in the book. I first read this as a very large, hardcover book about 15 years ago and this version seems a bit different (it’s paperback, smaller, and some of the text seems different - perhaps it’s Americanised?) but it’s still worth reading.