Praise for the author: ' Living Things turns out to be both highbrow and hair-raising (and exceptionally well translated by Julia Sanches). In only 120 pages it succeeds in several separate ways: as an eco-thriller exposing the horrors of industrialized meat production and agrochemicals; as a treatise on rendering truth in fiction; and, not least, as a "lads on tour" caper.' - Miranda France, Times Literary Supplement '[An] impetuous, upstart spirit infuses this short and spunky tale about young, would-be literary men who hit the road in search of adventure but find bleakness and exploitation. Hachemi's is the sort of writing that compulsively interrogates itself as writing, in which literary theorizing runs alongside the storytelling. Hachemi's documentary-style accounts of low-paid factory labor compellingly take us where most fiction writers would rather not go.' - Rob Doyle, The New York Times 'Gorgeously labyrinthine.' - Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind on Living Things '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.