The Smell of Apples

Blurb

The Smell of Apples is a 1993 debut novel by South African Mark Behr, also published in the same year in Afrikaans as Die Reuk van Appels.
Mark Behr describes the Afrikaner mentality and in apartheid South Africa as seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy called Marnus, the son of an Army General. A movie based on the book is planned for a release in 2011, starring Julian McMahon and Gillian Anderson.