该书荣获洛杉矶时报颁发的艺术Seidenbaum奖、M-Net奖、CNA文学奖、贝蒂特拉斯克奖和布克奖提名。讲述了20世纪70年代南非种族隔离制度下,一个11岁的小男孩Marnus Erasmus的故事,以此为缩影揭示了整个社会的动荡。 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 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.
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