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Living Things
Munir Hachemi
- Fitzcarraldo Editions (Faber)
- by Munir Hachemi
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Publisher | Fitzcarraldo Editions (Faber) |
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ISBN | 9781804270875 |
Author(s) | Munir Hachemi |
Publication date | June 2024 |
Edition | Paperback with flaps |
Dimensions | 192 x 112 mm |
Pages | 160 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
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.
Living Things