{"product_id":"living-things-paperback","title":"Living Things - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\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\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 QUEEN SOFÍA SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2024 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 Bolaño'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 Álex 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMunir Hachemi's \u003c\/b\u003ecareer as a writer began with them selling their stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. They are the author of \u003ci\u003eCosas vivas\u003c\/i\u003e (2018, translated as \u003ci\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/i\u003e, 2024) and \u003ci\u003eEl árbol viene \u003c\/i\u003e(2023, translated as \u003ci\u003eThe Mulai\u003c\/i\u003e, 2026), and are also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, they appeared on \u003ci\u003eGranta's \u003c\/i\u003eBest of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Sanches\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Born in Brazil, she currently resides in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43507488194649,"sku":"9781552454770","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/fEha-jspXn9781552454770.webp?v=1783266819","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/products\/living-things-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}