Living Things

Author(s): Hachemi, Munir,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 20/06/2024,
Pagination: 120 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions,
Published By: Fitzcarraldo Editions,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 196 x 127 x 10
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781804270875

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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.