{"product_id":"living-things-9781552454770","title":"Living Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD\u003c\/b\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\u003eMunir, 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...\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621259579666,"sku":"9781552454770","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cf102466-a64d-41bf-ab52-696a226497c7.jpg?v=1732583732","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/living-things-9781552454770","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}