<div><b>Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the <i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><b>Winner of the M-Net Award</b><br><b>Winner of The Eugene Marais Award</b><br><b>Winner of the CNA Literary Award</b><br><b>Winner of the Betty Trask Award</b><br><b>A Booker Prize Nominee</b><br><br>Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, <i>The Smell of</i> <i>Apples</i> 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.<br></div>