Living things - Munir Hachemi

LivingThingsfollows four recent graduates - Munir, G,Ernesto and lex - who travel from Madrid to the southof France to work the grape harvest. Except things don'tgo as planned: they end up working on an industrialchicken farm and living on a campsite, where a generalsense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compellingand incisive examination of precarious employment,capitalism, immigration and the mass production oflivingthings, all interwoven with the protagonist's thoughts onliterature and the nature of storytelling.A genre-bendingand dystopian eco-thriller,LivingThingsis a punk-likeblend of Roberto Bolao'sThe Savage DetectivesandSamanta Schweblin'sFever Dream, heralding an excitingnew voice in international fiction.