248pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2020
Runner-up in the 2018 Great Afrikaans Novel Competition.
A novel about a man who witnesses an attempted murder and gradually becomes involved in other acts of violence.
Jacobus (Jaco) Phillipus Fouché was born in 1967 in Klerksdorp. His debut novel, Die Ryk van die Rawe (1996) was awarded the Eugène Marais Prize. His novels include Siobhán van die Sirkus, Verstevlei and Die Gryslandverblyf.