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The Smell of Apples - Paperback

by Mark Behr
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark BehrPublish date:1997-03-15Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312152093ISBN-10:0312152094UPC:9780312152093Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, HistoricalSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCKPHTV77F

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312152093ISBN-10:0312152094UPC:9780312152093Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, HistoricalSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCKPHTV77F

Mark Behr was born in Tanzania in 1963, and moved as a child to South Africa. He was educated in South Africa, Norway, and the United States. The Smell of Apples won South Africa's biggest literary prize, the M-Net Award, The Eugene Marais Award, and the CNA Debut Literary Award. It also received the Betty Trask Award for the best first novel published in the United Kingdom, and was shortlisted for both the Steinbeck and Guardian Literary Awards.


Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL

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