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An Evening with Munir Hachemi: Living Things
We’re delighted to welcome Munir Hachemi at House of Books & Friends on Thursday 30th May to discuss his new book, Living Things, published by Fitzcarraldo. The event will take start at 6pm, and will include a conversation with Munir Hachemi and a Q&A, before an opportunity to get your books signed.
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About the book
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 on a campsite, 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. A genre-bending and dystopian eco-thriller, Living Things is a punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream, heralding an exciting new voice in international fiction.
About the author
Munir Hachemi’s career as a writer began with him selling his stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. He is the author of Living Things (2018) and El árbol viene [The Coming of the Tree] (2023), and is also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, he appeared on Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list. He currently lives in Buenos Aires.
About the translator
Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan into English. She has translated works such as Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu, Eartheater by Dolores Reyes, and Boulder by Eva Baltasar, which was longlisted for the International Booker 2023.