Product Description
Breath
Author: Jan Vermeulen
Format: Paperback
Recommended for ages 15+
A wild night of partying and a run-in with one of the most notorious drug dealers in Gauteng turns Barries’ life upside down. The police give him one simple choice – if he wants to stay out of jail, he has to spend the next six weeks on a farm, near a small coastal town in the Eastern Cape, right in the middle of nowhere.
With his estranged father. Slowly but surely, Barries comes to realise that the bottle of brandy stashed under the bed is not the only – or the darkest – secret his father is hiding.
Breath, a translation of the best-selling Asem, is a gripping novel for teens that doesn’t hesitate to tackle difficult themes.
About the Author
Jan Vermeulen is in Bethanie in die suide van Namibië gebore. Op veertien word sy eerste kortverhaal in die destydse jeugtydskrif Patrys gepubliseer.
Hy het die graad BA Admissie met hoofvakke Hebreeus en Filosofie aan die Universiteit van Port Elizabeth behaal, en in 1987 ’n BTh. en Teologiese Lisensiaat aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch. In 1998 voltooi hy ’n kursus in kreatiewe skryfkuns aan die Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands van die Universiteit van Port Elizabeth, en in dieselfde jaar verskyn sy debuutroman, Die laaste dans, by Queillerie.
In 2000 verskyn sy eerste jeugboek, Geraamtes dra nie klere nie. Dit is met die Sanlamprys (goud), die M.E.R.-prys, die Scheepersprys en ’n ATKV-Kinderboektoekenning bekroon.
In 2006 word sy kortverhaal “In Ma se Stoof” in die kortverhaalbundel Van Spoke Gepraat (Tafelberg) opgeneem. Jan en sy vrou Diana woon in die Oos-Kaap.
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