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Description for Embrace
Paperback. * Erotic, passionate coming-of-age novel, set in an exclusive boys' choir school in South Africa. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 201 x 48. Weight in Grams: 502. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
EMBRACE is the story of the awakening of Karl De Man a thirteen-year-old student at the Berg, an exclusive academy for boys in South Africa in the 1970s. Interwoven with the storyline about Karl at school are memories from Karl's childhood and first years at the Berg, presented as an ever-growing patchwork of the many influences on his development: growing up on a game reserve in East Africa, intensely aware of landscape and wildlife; a loving and close family, but a traditional one that will never easily accept Karl's true self: being sent away to school and the formation of ... Read more
EMBRACE is the story of the awakening of Karl De Man a thirteen-year-old student at the Berg, an exclusive academy for boys in South Africa in the 1970s. Interwoven with the storyline about Karl at school are memories from Karl's childhood and first years at the Berg, presented as an ever-growing patchwork of the many influences on his development: growing up on a game reserve in East Africa, intensely aware of landscape and wildlife; a loving and close family, but a traditional one that will never easily accept Karl's true self: being sent away to school and the formation of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349113005
SKU
KOG0006365
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Prof Mark Behr
Born in Tanzania in 1963, Mark Behr later moved to South Africa with his family. His first novel THE SMELL OF APPLES won several awards and was shortlisted for several more.
Reviews for Embrace
A sensitive and subtle story
THE TIMES
Subtle, complex and compassionate ... Behr excels at exploring the grey areas of complicity and understanding, while larger rights and wrongs are playing themselves out on the horizon
SUNDAY TIMES
De Man's well drawn family, his original voice and his beautiful prose make this book very special, almost epic ... Read more
THE TIMES
Subtle, complex and compassionate ... Behr excels at exploring the grey areas of complicity and understanding, while larger rights and wrongs are playing themselves out on the horizon
SUNDAY TIMES
De Man's well drawn family, his original voice and his beautiful prose make this book very special, almost epic ... Read more