Occupation - by Julián Fuks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel <em>Resistance</em>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Fiction to look out for in 2021. <strong>--The Observer</strong></p><p>Books to watch out for in 2021. <strong>--Irish Times</strong></p><p><strong>Praise for Julián Fuks</strong></p><p>Part of The New York Times' <em>The Decameron Project: New Fiction.</em></p><ul><li><strong>International Dublin Literature Prize (Longlist)</strong></li><li><strong>English PEN (Award)</strong></li><li><strong>José Saramago Literary Prize (Winner)</strong></li><li><strong>Jabuti Award for Best Foreign Edition (Winner)</strong></li><li><strong>Oceanos Prize for Literature in Portuguese (Winner)</strong></li><li><strong>Jabuti Award for Book of the Year (Winner)</strong></li><li><strong>Anna Seghers Prize (Winner)</strong></li></ul><p>This small book carries a big punch...Fuks is a young writer to watch. <strong>--The Guardian</strong></p><p>Fuks's skill lies in his quiet exploration of how exclusion -- willed or imposed -- shapes experience within families. <strong>--New York Times</strong></p><p>Fuks' prose is rythmic and patterned. <strong>--The Times Literary Supplement</strong></p><p>Eloquent, unsettling and deeply philosophical. <strong>--The Financial Times</strong></p><p>This elegant, essayistic novel, the first translated into English by this Brazilian writer, is a family drama with the dramatic parts deliberately quieted.... Fuks impressively inhabits the near despair that comes with the fragmentation of family and country. <strong>--Kirkus</strong></p><p>Fuk's work, while challenging in form, comes together in a powerful way. This is a thoughtful novel about identity and exile. <strong>--Publishers Weekly</strong></p><p>Resistance is an urgent and profound novel, a meditation on family, home and dislocation. Fuks focuses on a single family living in Brazil, years after fleeing Argentina. One of the best novels I've read concerning the generation after Brazil's military regime. Fuks' writing is sharp and humane, intimate and lyrical. A stunning work. <strong>--Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore</strong></p><p>A brilliant achievement. <strong>--Le Monde</strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Julián Fuks</strong> was born in São Paulo in 1981 and is the son of Argentinian parents. As an author whose work has garnered several top international literary prizes, Fuks has gained recognition as one of Brazil's most outstanding young writers. He has worked as a reporter for the newspaper <em>Folha de S. Paulo</em> and as a reviewer for the magazine <em>Cult</em>. Fuks is the author of <em>Histórias de literatura e cegueira</em> (2007) and <em>Procura do romance</em> (2011), both shortlisted for the Oceanos Award as well as for the Jabuti Award. During 2017, Julián Fuks worked alongside Mia Couto as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Considered by Fuks to be his most important work to date, <em>Resistance</em> was the winner of the Jabuti Award for Book of the Year (2016), the Oceanos Prize (2016), the José Saramago Literary Prize (2017) and the Anna Seghers Prize (2018). He currently lives in São Paulo.</p><p><strong>Daniel Hahn</strong> is a writer, editor and translator with over eighty books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) include fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. Recent books include the new Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and a translation of an Angolan novel. He is a former chair of the Society of Authors and is presently on the board of a number of organisations that deal with literature, literacy, translation and free expression. In 2021 Daniel was made an OBE for his services to literature.</p>
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