[The Smell of Apples]
Year:
1995
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Picador USA
City:
New York
Year of publication:
1995
Pages:
200
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Mark Behr was born in Tanzania in 1963 and moved as a child to South Africa. His first novel is set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. It is a haunting story narrated by an 11-year-old boy, who simply and devastatingly records the social turmoil and racial oppression that were destroying his land. Using his family as a microcosm of the corroding society at large, the boy tells a troubling tale of a childhood corrupted, of unexpected sexual defilements, and of an innocence gone astray.
Author: Fernando Mignone, Canada
Update on: Feb 2023