- Apartheid, Fiction, South African fiction (English), English fiction
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.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Mark Behr
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Abacus, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Picador
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349107561
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“My name is really Marnus, but when Dad speaks to me he mostly says 'my son' or 'my little bull' and him and Mum also like calling me 'my little piccanin'.”
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