Occupation

✍ Scribed by Julián Fuks

• Book ID: 110670846
• Publisher: Charco Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 109 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781916277878
• ASIN: B08MZ59C4P

✦ Synopsis

"This is one beautiful book."-- Mia CoutoKnown 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.