Occupation

"This is one beautiful book."Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance , Julin Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastin in a narrative alternating between the writers conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown So 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.