The Smell of Apples

The Smell of Apples

Paperback (15 Mar 1997)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780312152093
Publisher: Picador USA
Imprint: Picador USA
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: English
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 272g
Height: 216mm
Width: 137mm
Spine width: 13mm