The Smell of Apples
A Novel
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ISBN10: 0312152094
ISBN13: 9780312152093
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200 Pages
$19.00
CA$25.99
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.
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Praise for The Smell of Apples
"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