Mark Behr is a South African author. He has written two books, both dealing in some way with apartheid and the history of South Africa. A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ...

Biography

Behr attended the Drakensberg Boys Choir Music School (later the setting for his novel Embrace), and then studied at the University of Stellenbosch. During this time he worked as a spy for the Government and later for the ANC. Stellenbosch is the second oldest European settlement in South Africa after Cape Town, and is located in the Western Cape Province. ... ANC redirects here. ...

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His first novel, Die Reuk van Appels (The Smell of Apples) was critically very well received. It dealt with the apartheid system as seen through the eyes of a young Afrikaner boy, Markus. He followed this with Embrace, a novel about the early adolescence of Karl De Man, a 13-year-old Afrikaner, and in particular his awakening gay identity and relationships with both his choirmaster and his precocious, politically liberal best friend Dominic. Afrikaners are white South Africans of predominantly Calvinist Dutch, German, French Huguenot, Friesian and Walloon descent who speak Afrikaans. ... Look up gay in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Until several decades ago, the word gay meant something like jolly or mirthful. In contemporary usage, however, that meaning is unusual; the term is usually synonymous with homosexual. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...