The Smell of Apples - Brossura

Behr, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312152094 ISBN 13: 9780312152093

Casa editrice: Picador, 1997

Riassunto

The harsh realities of 1970s South African apartheid are witnessed by young narrator Marnus Erasmus, in a story of racial oppression, sexual abuse, lost innocence, and a society driven to the edge of dispair

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L'autore:

Mark Behr was born in Tanzania in 1963, and moved as a child to South Africa. He was educated in South Africa, Norway, and the United States. The Smell of Apples won South Africa's biggest literary prize, the M-Net Award, The Eugene Marais Award, and the CNA Debut Literary Award. It also received the Betty Trask Award for the best first novel published in the United Kingdom, and was shortlisted for both the Steinbeck and Guardian Literary Awards.

Product Description:

This remarkable novel evokes the twilight of South Africa's apartheid society in the early 1970s as seen through the eyes of a young Afrikaner boy, Marnus Erasmus. From the story of a seemingly stable and affluent family, whose self-delusion and arrogance masks a troubling undercurrent, comes a harrowing parallel tale of a childhood corrupted and a society beginning to crumble.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0312152094
• ISBN 13: 9780312152093
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208