Occupation

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.

"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.

• | Author: Julian Fuks, Daniel Hahn
• | Publisher: Charco Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 17, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781916277878
• | ISBN-10: 191627787X