<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Hachemi, Munir]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Hachemi, Munir]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/pima/rss/search?query=Hachemi%2C%20Munir&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:02:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Mulai]]></title><description><![CDATA["An archeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead, and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archeologist records his attempts to understand their world - a strange negative of our own - questions of translation, meaning-making, and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore. Drawing on Borges, Le Guin, and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi's singularly playful and eclectic style."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S91C2218672</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S91C2218672</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hachemi, Munir]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2218672091</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781552455197&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mulai]]></title><description><![CDATA[An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archaeologist records his attempts to understand their world - a strange negative of our own - questions of translation, meaning-making and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore. Drawing on Borges, Le Guin and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi's singularly playful and eclectic style.

Text copyright Munir Hachemi, 2023. 
Published by agreement with Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency. 
Translation copyright Julia Sanches, 2026]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20040670</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C20040670</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hachemi, Munir]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/20040670981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781804272954&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mulai]]></title><description><![CDATA[Interstellar via Invisible Cities: spec-fic translated from Spanish imagines life on another planet.
	Years after the climate wars on Earth, the Mulai have settled into their new home on an unnamed planet. Supplies stopped arriving from Earth many years ago, and the Mulai have found a way to live. But now the people of Earth want to know what happened to the settlers, so they send The Archaeologist.
	He finds that they have become a different people: uncannily similar to us but with something radically Other about them. Their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead, and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. They live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat a mysterious phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The Archaeologist feels like his trip is one extended misunderstanding.
	With fragments from The Archaeologist's notes and the stories of Flukeh and Faida, who map both their world and their language, The Mulai offers a glimpse of a world adjacent to ours – one that just may be a model for how to better our own.
	Drawing on Borges, Le Guin, and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi's singularly playful and eclectic style. 
	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]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19530679</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19530679</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hachemi, Munir]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19530679981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781770568921&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living Things]]></title><description><![CDATA[SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 QUEEN SOFÍA SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZE


	FINALIST FOR THE 2024 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATION


	FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
	WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARDThis punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.
 
	
 Munir, G, Ernesto, and Álex leave Madrid after graduation for a carefree summer of picking grapes in the south of France. But there's no grape harvest, and they end up in a series of increasingly nightmarish factory-farming gigs, where workers start disappearing. Soon the youngmen find themselves far away from the world of books and ideas, immersed in an existence that is lawless, inhumane and increasingly menacing…


	"Gorgeously labyrinthine." – Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind


	"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


	

 
	"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


	– Xiao Yue Shan, Cleveland Review of Books"Munir Hachemi is trying to tell this story of living things caught up in the gears of profit, of human hungers, of all the mechanisms of atrocity running in the background of our daily lives." 


	"Living Things doesn't try to shove anything down its readers' throats, though it places a lot at their doorstep and indirectly asks them to do some heavy lifting to understand it." – Nick Hilbourn, Rain Taxi


	"As an essay on the antinomies of autofiction-and those of its foundation, the literary economy of "experience"-Living Things is wry and incisive." – Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson, Chicago Review
	"Living Things is a slim, beguiling novel that belongs on a shelf alongside works by Roberto Bolaño and César Aira. It is both a serious meditation on art and modern food systems and a progressively mischievous exploration of form." – Literary Review of Canada


	"Living Things is by turns cool and frantic, dissociated and visceral, and all the more unsettling for it. Animal cruelty becomes mundane, sandwiched between minutely rendered, lengthy and genuinely funny accounts of negotiations over where to sleep, what to eat, the everyday stuff of life." – Sadie Graham, The Toronto Star


	"[U]pstart 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 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


	"Living Things is a socioeconomic critique of industrial agriculture, but can also be read as Cronenberg-style body horror. As a means of necessity, we are living things that eat other living things. It makes for tortured ethical decisions we will forever have to wrestle and understand. But we have]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19523958</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19523958</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hachemi, Munir]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19523958981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9781770568037&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosas vivas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alta y Baja Cultura, Bolaño y el punk, filosofía y terror, crítica social sin maniqueísmos... Un sinfín de sonidos y conceptos resuenan en estas páginas unas veces apocalípticas (como en Soylent Green, aquella película de ciencia ficción de Richard Fleischer y Charlton Heston) y otras falsamente ingenuas.
Una combinación tan poderosa como arriesgada que, sin embargo, logra hacer visible la amenaza que ocultan algunas capas de la realidad. "Lo real es un territorio salvaje, una selva o un desierto, un lugar del que no se puede hacer un mapa", escribe el propio autor.
"Cosas vivas acierta en la extensión, tiene personalidad y juega con la ramificación narrativa al hacernos avanzar en línea recta entre círculos de información anexa. La autoficción como arma y escudo al mismo tiempo."
Carlos Zanón, El País]]></description><link>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14465996</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14465996</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hachemi, Munir]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pima.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14465996981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=TPPL101&amp;password=CC85701&amp;Value=9788418264177&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item></channel></rss>