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Availability:In StockContributor:Munir Hachemi, Julia Sanches (Translator)Publish date:2024-06-18Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Coach House BooksISBN-13:9781552454770ISBN-10:1552454770UPC:9781552454770Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, DystopianBook Topic:SpainSize:7.00 x 4.70 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC9DHDAXEH

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD

This punk-like blend of Roberto Bola?o's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.

Munir, G, Ernesto, and ?lex leave Madrid after graduation for a carefree summer of picking grapes in the south of France. But there's no grape harvest, and they end up in a series of increasingly nightmarish factory-farming gigs, where workers start disappearing. Soon the youngmen find themselves far away from the world of books and ideas, immersed in an existence that is lawless, inhumane and increasingly menacing...

"Startling, compulsive, and vibrant; Living Things reads like an ignition. The most honest thing I've read in a long time about being young and alive in a beautiful, horrible world." - Dizz Tate, author of Brutes

"Living Things dips blithely in and out of genres and packs more ideas in its lean frame than seems possible. It's a novel posing as a journal posing as a meditation on the function of the journal that playfully interrogates form and content in art, what it means to write, and what it means to care or not care about anything, or about everything. Munir Hachemi is a magician, and his marvellous book, deftly translated by Julia Sanches, defies adequate description." - James Greer, author of Bad Eminence

"Gorgeously labyrinthine." - Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

Language:EnglishPublisher:Coach House BooksISBN-13:9781552454770ISBN-10:1552454770UPC:9781552454770Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, DystopianBook Topic:SpainSize:7.00 x 4.70 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC9DHDAXEH

Munir Hachemi's career as a writer began with him selling his stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. He is the author of Living Things (2018) and El árbol viene (The Tree Comes) (2023), and is also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, he appeared on Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list. He currently lives in Buenos Aires.

Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Recent translations include Boulder by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. Born in Brazil, she currently resides in the United States.


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