''Embrace'' is a 2001 novel by South African author
Mark Behr
Mark Behr (19 October 1963 – 27 November 2015) was a Tanzanian-born writer who grew up in South Africa. He was professor of English literature and creative writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He also taught in the MA program at the U ...
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''Embrace'' is the story of the sexual awakening of Karl De Man, a 13-year-old pupil at the Berg, an exclusive boys' school in South Africa in the 1970s. Karl's time at school is interwoven with descriptions of his time at home with his loving, but traditional, family.
Karl is punished after joining in casual sexual games in the dormitory, Karl falls in love. He simultaneously has an affair with his best friend, Dominic, whose
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parents know he is gay, and his choirmaster, Jacques Cilliers.
2001 novels
21st-century South African novels
Novels set in South Africa
Novels by Mark Behr
Novels with gay themes
Fiction set in the 1970s
Novels set in boarding schools
2000s LGBT novels
Abacus books
2001 LGBT-related literary works
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