| Author/Contributor(s): | Hachemi, Munir ; Sanches, Julia |
| Publisher: | Coach House Books |
| Date: | 06/18/2024 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction
Living Things follows four recent graduates - Munir, G, Ernesto, and Ãlex - 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 in a campground, 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.