Mark Behr
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The Smell of Apples: A Novel
Mark Behr
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 corrupted, of unexpected sexual defilements, and of an innocence gone astray.
