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Language English Publication date February 2001 Pages 736 pp Originally published February 2001 Genre Novel OCLC 45339251 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publisher Abacus Press (UK) Media type Hardback and paperback ISBN 0-349-11300-9 Country South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Embrace is a 2001 novel by South African author Mark Behr.
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 liberal parents know he is gay, and his choirmaster, Jacques Cilliers.
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