Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Living Things is a literary eco-thriller, a punk-like blend of Roberto Bola o's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, and heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.
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 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.
Synopsis
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
Living Things is a literary eco-thriller, a punk-like blend of Roberto Bola o's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, and heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.
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 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.
Synopsis
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
This punk-like blend of Roberto Bola 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 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 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.