Occupation

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Fiction to look out for in 2021." -The Observer

"...a thoughtful, intimate exploration of how people literally and figuratively occupy their own stories and those of others." -Publishers Weekly

"Poignant, thought-provoking and engaging." -The Scotsman

"Wholly mesmerising." -Irish Times

"Best books of 2021" -The Financial Times

"This is one beautiful book."" -Mia Couto

"A slender yet striking novel." -Hopscotch Translation

"Occupation asks a lot of its readers, but it gives in equal measure; and when you do come up for air, you look around you with a renewed and invigorated sense of the space you occupy in your own life. Superb." -Lunate

"A quiet masterpiece." -Asymptote

"In Fuks' prose occupation and resistance walk hand-in-hand." -Full Stop

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Praise for Julian Fuks
Part of The New York Times' The Decameron Project: New Fiction.

International Dublin Literature Prize (Longlist)
English PEN (Award)
Jose Saramago Literary Prize (Winner)
Jabuti Award for Best Foreign Edition (Winner)
Oceanos Prize for Literature in Portuguese (Winner)
Jabuti Award for Book of the Year (Winner)
Anna Seghers Prize (Winner)

"This small book carries a big punch...Fuks is a young writer to watch." -The Guardian

"Fuks's skill lies in his quiet exploration of how exclusion - willed or imposed - shapes experience within families." -New York Times

"Fuks' prose is rythmic and patterned." -The Times Literary Supplement

"Eloquent, unsettling and deeply philosophical." -The Financial Times

"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." -Kirkus

"Fuk's work, while challenging in form, comes together in a powerful way. This is a thoughtful novel about identity and exile." -Publishers Weekly

"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." -Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore

"A brilliant achievement." -Le Monde

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