From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about africa. 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...From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about africa. 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.