Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
208
Language
Afrikaans
Published
Jan 1, 1993
Publisher
Queillerie
ISBN-10
1874901066
ISBN-13
9781874901068
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.