{"product_id":"9780312152093","title":"The Smell of Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the M-Net Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of The Eugene Marais Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the CNA Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Betty Trask Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Booker Prize Nominee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eThe Smell of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eApples\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48186957365488,"sku":"9780312152093","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312152093_p0.jpg?v=1763759267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312152093","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}