Living Things

9,SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 QUEEN SOF?A SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2024 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATION FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN TRANSLATIONWINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARDThis 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 BrutesLiving 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 EminenceGorgeously labyrinthine. - Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind