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Review of fiction by Brazilian Julian Fuks and poetry from Argentinean Susana Thenon and British Latinx Marina Sanchez
UNIQUE: Susana Thenon
[Aymara Mont/cultura.gob.ar]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
PART of a loose trilogy, Julian Fuks’s second novel Occupation (Charco Press, £9.99), follows his highly acclaimed 2015 book Resistance.
Skilfully translated by Daniel Hahn, his latest quasi-autobiographical work is a meditation on fatherhood, refugees and death. In it, the Brazilian author intertwines three separate accounts of refugees occupying a derelict building in downtown Sao Paulo, the story of the author’s psychoanalyst father dying from lung cancer and his wife’s pregnancy.
It takes some time for these narrative strands to complement each other and, when they do, the author creates a landscape that is as devastatingly personal as it is highly political, shedding light on contemporary life in Brazil under the right-wing administration of Jair Bolsonaro.
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