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Living Things
Munir Hachemi
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction
Living Things 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 living things, all interwoven with the protagonist’s thoughts on literature and the nature of storytelling.
"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 Brutes
"Living 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 Eminence
"Gorgeously labyrinthine." – Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
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Dante, autofiction, clifi, Franz Kafka, The Savage Detectives, Orson Scott Card, Lord Byron, finding yourself, Travel, Truman Capote, meat industry, Charles Bukowski, Watchmen, translated fiction, The Simpsons, coming-of-age, Divine Comedy, France, Homer, Javier Cercas, Pulp Fiction, award winner, food industry, climate change, Michel Houellebecq, Ernest Hemingway, Spain, Alan Moore, Roberto Bolaño, F. Scott Fitzgerald, industrial farming, friendship, Charles Baudelaire, PEN translates, Cristina Morales, capitalism, mystery, adulthood, Jack Kerouac, Paul Auster, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, corporations