Occupation / Julián Fuks ; translated by Daniel Hahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuks, Julián, author.

Contributor:

Hahn, Daniel, translator.

Standardized Title:

Ocupação. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Families--Brazil--Fiction.

Families.

Brazil.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

143 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Charco Press Ltd, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

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.

Alternating between refugees occupying a building, a father's sickness, and a wife's pregnancy, Occupation examines the fragility of life and the brutality of not belonging.

ISBN:

9781916277878

191627787X

OCLC:

1175916424

Publisher Number:

99988443530