Die Reuk van Appels

An ambitious debut novel from young Johannesburg writer Behr revisits 1970s South Africa - here, to tell of a family that conveniently embodied many of that country's familiar pathologies and distortions. While not exactly a morality tale, the story that ten-year-old Marnus Erasmus tells is nonetheless shaped and determined by the phrase the smell of apples - apples that are sweet until they rot and stink.

Softcover. Afrikaans. Queillerie. 1996. 208 pp. In fair condition. Book No: 10027844