Occupation

Occupation
Daniel Hahn, Julian Fuks
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 150pg
17 Aug 2021 UK
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9781916277878
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Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julian Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastian in a narrative alternating between the writer' s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown Sao 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.
Praise for Julian Fuks Part of The New York Times' The Decameron Project: New Fiction. International Dublin Literature Prize (Longlist)English PEN (Award)Jabuti Award for Book of the Year (Winner)Oceanos Prize for Literature in Portuguese (Winner)Jose Saramago Literary Prize (Winner)Anna Seghers Prize (Winner)Jabuti Award for Best Foreign Edition (Winner)Fuks' s skill lies in his quiet exploration of how exclusion -- willed or imposed -- shapes experience within families. --New York TimesThis small book carries a big punch. . . Fuks is a young writer to watch. --The GuardianFuks' prose is rythmic and patterned. --The Times Literary SupplementEloquent, unsettling and deeply philosophical. --The Financial TimesFuk' s work, while challenging in form, comes together in a powerful way. This is a thoughtful novel about identity and exile. --Publishers WeeklyThis 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. --KirkusResistance 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. --Mark Haber, Brazos BookstoreA brilliant achievement. --Le Monde
Julian Fuks was born in Sao 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 Folha de S. Paulo and as a reviewer for the magazine Cult. Fuks is the author of Historias de literatura e cegueira (2007) and Procura do romance (2011), both shortlisted for the Oceanos Award as well as for the Jabuti Award. During 2017, Julian Fuks worked alongside Mia Couto as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. Considered by Fuks to be his most important work to date, Resistance was the winner of the Jabuti Award for Book of the Year (2016), the Oceanos Prize (2016), the Jose Saramago Literary Prize (2017) and the Anna Seghers Prize (2018). He currently lives in Sao Paulo. Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with some fifty 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 Jose Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pele. 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.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781916277878
Published: 17 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Charco Press
Publisher: Charco Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 150

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