PublishedFitzcarraldo, September 2024 |
ISBN9781804270875 |
FormatSoftcover, 120 pages |
Dimensions19.7cm × 12.5cm |
Living Things follows four recent graduates - Munir, G, Ernesto and lex - 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 Bolao's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, heralding an exciting new voice in international fiction.
