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Munir Hachemi's career as a writer began with him selling his stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapi�s neighbourhood of Madrid. He is the author of Living Things (2018) and El �rbol viene (The Tree Comes) (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. Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Recent translations include Boulder by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. Born in Brazil, she currently resides in the United States.
"""A magnificent debut."" - Eugenio Fuentes, La Nueva Espa�a ""Hachemi counterbalances the uneasy atmosphere with a constant, subtle underlying humour that feels like a burst of fresh air. Absurdity and latent danger, stirred up in a French heatwave by the na�ve insouciance of a group of increasingly tense youths, create an absorbing, somewhat Kafkaesque mood ... [Hachemi] weaves a delicately disturbing tale that contains all the rage and disappointment of facing a reality where only helplessness is possible."" - Gabi Mart�nez, La Vanguardia ""Living Things is a short novel that changes its skin - and almost its genre - in each of its eight parts ... A work of autofiction that not only defines the self against lived and narrated experience, but also functions as an indictment of social, political, sanitary and economic systems: of the meat industry as it exists today, of racism, of insecure work and financial precarity, and of the voracity at the heart of capitalism itself.... [T]he fact that this all happened to the author affects us not only as readers, but as human beings."" - Carlos Zan�n, El Pa�s ""An endless array of sounds and ideas reverberate through these pages, at times apocalyptic and at other times deceptively na�ve."" - Qu� Leer ""Blending together allusions to Hemingway, Borges, Bola�o, Houellebecq and even Lenin, with reflections on Google, the true nature of the livestock industry, the ins and outs of temp work agencies, ecological stability, the free market and the paradoxes of diary-keeping, Munir Hachemi superimposes layers of reality with quasi-apocalyptic detours that reveal the menace underlying seemingly banal situations."" - Mar�a Teresa Lezcano, Diario Sur ""From the outset [of Living Things], the first person narration is interwoven with a multitude of meta-literary and philosophical reflections that eventually form a rich second skin, a subterranean engine through which the real story, beyond the descriptions of escapades and setbacks, begins to be understood. A magnificent debut."" - Eugenio Fuentes, La Nueva Espa�a"
