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 being 'disappeared'. Their names are on a list. Time is running out. When they leave, they take with them their infant son, adopted after years of trying for a child without success. They build a new life in Brazil and things change radically. The family grows as the couple have two more children: a son and a daughter._Resistance _unfolds as an intimate portrayal of the formation of a family under extraordinary circumstances, told from the point of view of the youngest child. It's an examination of identity, of family bonds, of the different forms that exile can take, of what it means to belong to a place, to a family, to your own past.Already winner of the Jabuti Award for Book of the Year 2016 (Brazil), the Jose Saramago Literary Prize 2017 (Portugal) and the Anna Seghers Prize 2018 (Germany), _Resistance _demonstrates remarkable courage and skill by one of Brazil's rising literary stars.
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 over eighty 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. In 2021 Daniel was made an OBE for his services to literature.
Title: Resistance
Author: Julián Fuks
ISBN: 9781999859329
Binding:
Publisher: Charco Press
Publication Date: 2018-10-04
Number of Pages: 150
Weight: 0.2001 kg
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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Praise for Julian Fuks
Part of The New York Times' The Decameron Project: New Fiction.
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
This is one beautiful book. -Mia Couto
Books to watch out for in 2021. -Irish Times
A slender yet striking novel. -Hopscotch Translation
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