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An English boy growing up in wartime South Africa is sent to a hated Afrikaner boarding school, learns to box from a drunken former welterweight on a train, and decides to become champion of the world.
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My Son's Story
Will, the teenage son of a coloured schoolteacher turned activist, sees his father coming out of a cinema with his white mistress.
Age of Iron
In Cape Town in the late 1980s, Mrs Curren, a retired classics lecturer, learns she has terminal cancer on the day a homeless man moves into the alley beside her house, and begins a long letter to her daughter in America.
The Steam Pig
In Trekkersburg, a town in apartheid South Africa, a mortuary mix-up shows that Theresa le Roux, a young white piano teacher, did not die naturally, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu colleague Sergeant Mickey Zondi set out to learn why.
July's People
When revolution breaks out in South Africa, the Smales, a liberal white family from Johannesburg, flee to the remote village of their servant, July, and must depend on him.
The Promise
Four funerals, each in a different decade, mark the decline of the Swarts, a white South African family, and their failure to keep the promise to give their Black maid, Salome, the house she lives in.
Sam
Sam grows up in Beverly, Massachusetts, with a struggling single mother and a charismatic, unreliable father, and finds the one thing she is sure of on climbing walls and rock faces.
Ghost
Castle 'Ghost' Cranshaw, a seventh-grader who has been running since the night his father fired a gun at him and his mother, talks his way onto an elite track team, where the coach sees something in him, if he can stay out of trouble.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Stephen Kumalo, an elderly Zulu priest in the hills of Natal, travels to Johannesburg to look for his sister, who has stopped writing, and his son Absalom, who went to the city and never came back.
Cracking India
Lenny, a Parsee girl lamed by polio, watches from her family's house in Lahore as Partition in 1947 turns her ayah's circle of admirers against each other.
The Secret Life of Bees
In 1964 South Carolina a fourteen-year-old white girl runs off with her black housekeeper to a pink house kept by three beekeeping sisters who know the secret of her dead mother.
Fifty Words for Rain
In Kyoto in 1948, Nori, eight, the daughter of a Japanese aristocrat and a Black American soldier, is left by her mother at her grandmother's estate, where she is kept hidden in the attic.
The Outsiders
A kid in a poor Oklahoma gang tells the story of the week the rich kids came for them and a boy he loved died, and the week rearranged what he thought he understood about either side.