Whitethorn

From Bryce Courtenay comes a novel of Africa, a bildungsroman that begins in 1939 in South Africa, a nation deeply divided with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is 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, a remote orphanage in the high mountains where the Afrikaners fiercely side with Hitler's Germany. His English name is enough to ostracize him, marking him as an outsider and beginning a series of tough life lessons. Like the enduring whitethorn plant, Tom learns how to survive in the harsh climate of racial hatred. A terrible event later sends him on a journey to ensure that justice is done, a quest that follows him through to the 1960s, covering the era of apartheid and resistance, and on the way, he makes the unexpected discovery of love.

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