The Mulai / Munir Hachemi ; translated by Julia Sanches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hachemi, Munir, 1989- author.

Contributor:

Sanches, Julia, translator.

Standardized Title:

Árbol viene. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Extraterrestrial anthropology--Fiction.

Extraterrestrial anthropology.

Archaeologists--Fiction.

Archaeologists.

Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.

Interplanetary voyages.

Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.

Extraterrestrial beings.

Genre:

Novels

Novels.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2026]

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Translation of: El árbol viene.

Other Format:

Online version: Hachemi, Munir, 1989- Árbol viene. English. Mulai.

ISBN:

155245519X

9781552455197

OCLC:

1528532702

Publisher Number:

90104828549