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The Smell of Apples

A Novel

Author: Mark Behr

The Smell of Apples

The Smell of Apples

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About This Book

Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
Winner of the M-Net Award
Winner of The Eugene Marais...

Page Count
200
On Sale
03/15/1997

Book Details

Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
Winner of the M-Net Award
Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
Winner of the CNA Literary Award
Winner of the Betty Trask Award
A Booker Prize Nominee

Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples is a haunting story narrated by eleven-year-old Marnus Erasmus, who records the social turmoil and racial oppression that are destroying his own land. Using his family as a microcosm of the corroding society at large, Marnus tells a troubling tale of a childhood corrupted, of unexpected sexual defilements, and of an innocence gone astray.

Imprint Publisher

Picador

ISBN

9780312152093

In The News

“Mark Behr has created a portrait of Afrikaner society in the mid 1970s as vivid and powerful as it is chilling.” —Claire Messud, The Washington Post Book World

“This is, quite simply, an extraordinary book.” —Jean Patteson, Orlando Sentinel

“A gripping and disturbing story.” —J.M. Coetzee

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The Smell of Apples

The Smell of Apples

$19.00

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