Living Things
2020
First Published
3.78
Average Rating
160
Number of Pages
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 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. Genre-bending and dystopian, Living Things is a literary eco-thriller, a punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, and heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.
Avg Rating
3.78
Number of Ratings
755
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Munir Hachemi
Author · 3 books
Munir Hachemi (born 1989) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid to an Algerian father and studied Spanish at university. He also obtained a master's degree in Latin American studies. His fiction appeared initially in fanzines under the aegis of the Escritores Bárbaros collective. His first novel Cosas vivas appeared in 2018. In 2021, he was named by Granta magazine as one of the most promising young Spanish-language writers in the world. (source: Wikipedia)
