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"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 writers conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his fathers sickness, and his wifes 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 buildings 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.
"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 writers conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his fathers sickness, and his wifes 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 buildings 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.