"This is one beautiful book."?Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance , Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer?s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São 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 the building?s 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.