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3 Novels by Mark Behr
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Overview: Mark Behr (1963 - 2015) was a Tanzanian writer in South Africa. He was professor of Creative Writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He has been professor of World Literature and Fiction Writing at the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also taught in the MA program at the University of Cape Town and the MFA program at the University of New Mexico.
Behr was born into a family of farmers in the district of Oljorro, Arusha, Tanzania, then still Tanganyika. After the nationalization of white-owned farms during the implementation of President Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa Policy of African Socialism in 1964, the family emigrated to South Africa. Here the family defined themselves as Afrikaners, with the Behr children attending Afrikaans language schools and the conservative Dutch Reformed church.

Behr's father became a game ranger in the game parks of KwaZulu-Natal, where Behr spent his early youth. Between ages ten and twelve Behr attended the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir School, a private music academy in the Drakensberg Mountains of KwaZulu-Natal. After matriculation from Port Natal High School, an Afrikaans language school in Durban, he was, like most other young white South African men of his age, conscripted into the South African Defence Force, and he served in the Angolan War, becoming a junior officer in the Marine Corps.
Genre: Fictional memoir / MM Romance / Gay coming-of-age

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The Smell of Apples (1993): Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples 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.

Embrace (2001): 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. The events of Karl's school life are interwoven with memories from his childhood and first years at the Berg, as he falls in love with both his best friend and his choirmaster.

Kings of the water (2009): When Michiel Steyn returns to South Africa for his beloved mother’s funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise.
As Michiel submits himself to the rituals of mourning and remembrance in the small town where he became a man, all that has lain undisturbed for a decade and a half is brought to light. A father’s implacable fury and a brother’s death, the betrayal of love and the ugly memory of the dying days of apartheid all come between the prodigal and forgiveness. Michiel finds that he must confront not only his grief for his mother’s passing but the painful truth of his own transgressions.

‘Superbly written, thoughtful and unflinching, this terrific novel explores the mentality of the Afrikaner male – with wonderfully poetic use of the Afrikaans language' - Kate Saunders, THE TIMES

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The Smell of Apples
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Embrace
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Kings of the Water
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https://mega.nz/file/ZkxxWLZA#ArjrGI0uUeg2M7reyy7zGNKehltEU6p7WTcX3iD5QTU
Another hard-to-find collection of books acquired, scanned and converted to ebook using AbbyyFineReader and Sigil

Edit: 9th Sept 2014: Fixed OCR errors in original Open Library download. New download links contain fixed .ePUB and .MOBI files.
Edit: New download links 15 August 2019
Edit: 'Kings of the Water' added 1 Dec 2021, fresh download links added for all
Edit: 14 Dec 2023 New download links added

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Embrace: 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. The events of Karl's school life are interwoven with memories from his childhood and first years at the Berg, as he falls in love with both his best friend and his choirmaster.

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"Kings of the water" (2009)

When Michiel Steyn returns to South Africa for his beloved mother’s funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise.
As Michiel submits himself to the rituals of mourning and remembrance in the small town where he became a man, all that has lain undisturbed for a decade and a half is brought to light. A father’s implacable fury and a brother’s death, the betrayal of love and the ugly memory of the dying days of apartheid all come between the prodigal and forgiveness. Michiel finds that he must confront not only his grief for his mother’s passing but the painful truth of his own transgressions.

‘Superbly written, thoughtful and unflinching, this terrific novel explores the mentality of the Afrikaner male – with wonderfully poetic use of the Afrikaans language' - Kate Saunders, THE TIMES