Occupation

Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father's sickness, and his wife's pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds associations that go beyond the obvious, not only between glimpsing a life's beginning and end, but also between the building's occupation and his wife's pregnancy -- showcasing the various forms of occupation while exposing the frailty of life, the risk of solitude and the brutality of not belonging.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Charco Press
Published: 08/17/2021
ISBN: 9781916277878
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/07/2021