The Smell of Apples Author:Mark Behr Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times — Winner of the M-Net Award — Winner of The Eugene Marais Award — Winner of the CNA Literary Award — Winner of the Betty Trask Award — A Booker Prize Nominee — Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples is a haunting story nar... more »rated 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.« less