Bryce Courtenay’s classic bestseller is superbly narrated by Humphrey Bower. First with your head and then with your heart ...

So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa.Through enduring friendships with Hymie and Gideon, Peekay gains the strength he needs to win out. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, the Judge, Peekay will fight to the death for justice...

“It’s hard to imagine a reader delivering his audience so completely to a foreign locale as Humphrey Bower does in this coming-of-age novel based in South Africa.” — AudioFile Magazine

"It’s hard to imagine a reader delivering his audience so completely to a foreign locale as Humphrey Bower does in this coming-of-age novel based in South Africa.”

 

Bryce was born in 1933 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has lived in Australia for over forty years. He is married with two sons. Bryce wrote his first book, the bestselling The Power of One, at the age of fifty-five. It has now sold nearly three million copies worldwide. He has had a long and successful advertising career and has won many local and international advertising awards. Bryce is the author of over a dozen bestselling books including Brother Fish, Tandia, April Fool's Day.