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Living Things

✍ Scribed by Munir Hachemi

Book ID
115196090
Publisher
Coach House Books
Tongue
English
Weight
731 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781770568044

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✦ Synopsis

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD** _
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This punk-like blend of Roberto Bola Γ±o'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 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 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.

"Startling, compulsive, and vibrant; Living Things reads like an ignition. The most honest thing I've read...

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