Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780143004844 / 0143004840 - Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay. Published by Penguin 2007. Softcover. Used, Good condition. 692 pp. Ex-library copy.

The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English.

The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany.

Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons for the small, lonely boy.

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