Breath - Jan Vermeulen

Barries Barnard hates his father.  He dreams about the day he'll take revenge.  That's what the rat poison that he keeps in his bag is for.  Not enough to kill Pa.  Just enough to make him writhe in agony for a few days.

When 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 dad.

And so a journey towards healing begins slowly but surely with the man who hurt Barries the most.  A journey about finding freedom and learning to breathe.

Breath, a translation of the best-selling Asem, is a gripping novel about addiction, second chances and what it means to really find yourself.