BREATH

220pp., paperback, First English Language Edition, Midrand, 2024

Teen novel, originally published in 2016 in Afrikaans as Asem. Translated into English by Elsa Silke.

After a wild night of partying and a run-in with a notorious drug dealer the police give Barrie a choice – jail or spending six weeks on a farm with his estranged father.

Jan Vermeulen’s first teen novel, Geraamtes dra nie klere nie (2020), was awarded the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature (Gold), the M.E.R. Prize, the Scheepers Prize and an ATKV Children’s Book Award. He lives in the Eastern Cape.