{"product_id":"living-things-paperback","title":"Living Things - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMunir Hachemi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulia Sanches\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis punk-like blend of Roberto Bola?o's \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e and Samanta Schweblin's \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/i\u003e follows four recent graduates - Munir, G, Ernesto, and ?lex - who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don't go as planned: they end up working on an industrial chicken farm and living in a campground, where a general sense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compelling and incisive examination of precarious employment, capitalism, immigration, and the mass production of \u003ci\u003eliving things\u003c\/i\u003e, all interwoven with the protagonist's thoughts on literature and the nature of storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Startling, compulsive, and vibrant; \u003ci\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" - \u003cb\u003eDizz Tate, author of \u003ci\u003eBrutes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -\u003cb\u003e James Greer, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Eminence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gorgeously labyrinthine.\" - \u003cb\u003eMolly McGhee, author of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Abernathy You Are Kind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMunir 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 \u003ci\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eEl árbol viene\u003c\/i\u003e (The Tree Comes) (2023), and is also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, he appeared on \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list. He currently lives in Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Recent translations include \u003ci\u003eBoulder\u003c\/i\u003e by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. Born in Brazil, she currently resides in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51747686908192,"sku":"9781552454770","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/96a0a1c560eca3afcaf30e2fa8e6f4df.webp?v=1779899078","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/living-things-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}