Resistance - by Julián Fuks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Adoption, exile, and family are the focus of this exploration of what it means to belong.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>My brother is adopted, but I can't say and don't want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categorical condition, a single essential attribute...</em></p><p>A young couple, involved in the struggle against the military dictatorship in 1970s Argentina, must flee the country. The brutality and terror of the regime is closing in around them. Friends are being 'disappeared'. Their names are on a list. Time is running out. When they leave, they take with them their infant son, adopted after years of trying for a child without success. They build a new life in Brazil and things change radically. The family grows as the couple have two more children: a son and a daughter.</p><p><em>Resistance</em> unfolds as an intimate portrayal of the formation of a family under extraordinary circumstances, told from the point of view of the youngest child. It's an examination of identity, of family bonds, of the different forms that exile can take, of what it means to belong to a place, to a family, to your own past.</p><p>Already winner of the Jabuti Award for Book of the Year 2016 (Brazil), the José Saramago Literary Prize 2017 (Portugal) and the Anna Seghers Prize 2018 (Germany), <em>Resistance</em> demonstrates remarkable courage and skill by one of Brazil's rising literary stars.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><strong>Awards</strong> <ul><li>Jabuti Award for Book of the Year 2016 <em>--Winner</em><li>Oceanos Prize for Literature in Portuguese 2016 <em>--Winner</em><li>José Saramago Literary Prize 2017 <em>--Winner</em><li>Anna Seghers Prize 2018 (Germany) <em>--Winner</em><li>English PEN Award 2018<li>Jabuti Award for Best Foreign Edition 2019 <em>--Winner</em><li>International Dublin Literature Prize<em> --Longlist</em></li></ul></p><p><strong>Reviews/Endorsements</strong></p><p>"Fuks' prose is rythmic and patterned." <strong>--Times Literary Supplement</strong></p><p>"Eloquent, unsettling and deeply philosophical." <strong>--Financial Times</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>"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 Reviews</strong></p><p>"A brilliant achievement." <strong>--Le Monde</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><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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