Julián Fuks
1) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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... 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...
2) Occupation
Author
Publisher
Charco Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julìn Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter-ego Sebastìn in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown Ŝo 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...
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