Tandia is Bryce Courtenay's 1992 sequel to his own best-selling novel The Power of One. It follows the story of a young woman, Tandia, who was brutally raped and then banished from her own home. Tandia later meets up with Peekay, the protagonist from The Power of One and their stories continue on together. In South Africa, during a time when apartheid was at its worst, Courtenay tells a story of how oppressed people worked together with those who sought justice against the inhumane dictators of the country and those who supported it. There are also storylines and themes involving boxing,... which was predominant in Courtenay's earlier novel, The Power Of One. Tandia, whose parents were a South African Indian man and his house worker , is raped by a police officer at her father's grave the day after his funeral. With Mr. Patel's death, Tandia knew things were going to be very hard for her. But after his wife kicks her out of the dark corrugated-iron shed in the back yard, her only house, her situation has been changed more drastically than she expected.
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| Author: | Bryce Courtenay |
| Genre: | Novel, Fiction |
| Year published: | 1991 |
| Number of editions: | 14 |