The Smell of Apples

Mark Behr

Original title: The smell of apples

first published 1995 St. Martin's Press, 1995 200 pages

The smell of apples is a time bomb of a novel. Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, it is a haunting story narrated by an eleven-year-old child, Marnus Erasmus, who simply and devastatingly 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...

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The Smell of Apples paperback · 1997 · Picador · 200 pages · 9780312152093
The smell of apples edition · 1995 · St. Martin's Press · 200 pages
The smell of apples edition · 1995 · Abacus · 200 pages
Smell of Apples edition · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 208 pages · 9780349107561

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