- Fiction, Boarding schools, South africa, fiction, Fiction, general
The awakening of Karl De Man, a 13-year-old student at the Berg, an exclusive academy for boys in 1970s South Africa. The events of Karl's school-life are interwoven with memories from his childhood and first years at the Berg, as he falls in love with both his best friend and his choirmaster.
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Earnest, grave, intimate and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Mark Behr
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 590
- Publisher
- Little Brown, Time Warner Books UK, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349113005
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