num_pages: 200
description: Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples is a haunting story narrated by eleven-year-old Marnus Erasmus, who 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.
language: English
title: The Smell of Apples
titlecomplete: The Smell of Apples
genres: Historical, Post Colonial, Literary Fiction, Novels, Drama, South Africa, High School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 1214
places: South Africa, Cape Town
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: M-Net Literary Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Eugène Marais-prys, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Picador