Title: The smell of apples
First published: 1995
Description: 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 awry.
Subjects: Apartheid, Fiction, South African fiction (English), English fiction, South africa, fiction, Fiction, historical, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, History
Places: South Africa
LC classification: PT6592.12.E37 R4813 1995