{"product_id":"living-things-9781552454770","title":"Living Things","description":"\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 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\u003cbr\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 Álex - 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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552454770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144","brand":"Munir Hachemi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44033873215669,"sku":"9781552454770","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4fa542ea-15f2-4209-8f72-a9ac738743df.jpg?v=1713887106","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/living-things-9781552454770","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}