Living Things

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATIONFINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN TRANSLATIONWINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARDThis punk-like blend of Roberto BolaosThe Savage Detectivesand Samanta SchweblinsFever Dreamheralds 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 menacingStartling, compulsive, and vibrant;Living Thingsreads like an ignition. The most honest thing Ive read in a long time about being young and alive in a beautiful, horrible world. Dizz Tate, author ofBrutesLiving Thingsdips blithely in and out of genres and packs more ideas in its lean frame than seems possible. Its 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 ofBad EminenceGorgeously labyrinthine. Molly McGhee, author ofJonathan Abernathy You Are Kind