1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner
The Smell of Apples: A Novel
Mark Behr
The harsh realities of 1970s South African apartheid are witnessed by young narrator Marnus Erasmus, in a story of racial oppression, sexual abuse, lost innocence, and a society driven to the edge of dispair…
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Shortlist
I Never Came to You in White
Judith Farr
I Was Amelia Earhart
Jane Mendelsohn
Resurrection Man
Eoin McNamee
St. Burl’s Obituary
Daniel Akst
The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
John Lanchester
The Secret of the Bulls
José Raúl Bernardo
