The Smell of Apples
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This remarkable novel evokes the twilight of South Africa's apartheid society in the early 1970s as seen through the eyes of a young Afrikaner boy, Marnus Erasmus. From the story of a seemingly stable and affluent family, whose self-delusion and arrogance masks a troubling undercurrent, comes a harrowing parallel tale of a childhood corrupted and a society beginning to crumble.
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The Smell of Apples, Mark Behr
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- Released
- 1996
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- The Smell of Apples
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mark Behr
- Released
- 1996
- ISBN10
- 0349107564
- ISBN13
- 9780349107561
- Category
- World prose, Contemporary Literary Fiction
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- This remarkable novel evokes the twilight of South Africa's apartheid society in the early 1970s as seen through the eyes of a young Afrikaner boy, Marnus Erasmus. From the story of a seemingly stable and affluent family, whose self-delusion and arrogance masks a troubling undercurrent, comes a harrowing parallel tale of a childhood corrupted and a society beginning to crumble.