Living Things
Living Things
Authors: Munir Hachemi & Julia Sanches
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Fiction in translation
Published on 19th June 2024 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom.
Paperback / softback | 160 pages
197mm x 125mm | 0g
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. Genre-bending and dystopian, Living Things is a literary eco-thriller, a punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream, and heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.