Living Things by Julia Sanches

Living?Things?follows four recent graduates - Munir, G,?Ernesto and Alex - 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.?A genre-bending?and dystopian eco-thriller,?Living?Things?is a punk-like?blend of Roberto Bola?o's?The Savage Detectives?and?Samanta Schweblin's?Fever Dream, heralding an exciting?new voice in international fiction.?
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