Living Things

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 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 Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream , heralding an exciting new voice in international fiction.

Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G,Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid to the southof France to work the grape harvest. Except things don’tgo as planned: they end up working on an industrialchicken farm and living on a campsite, where a generalsense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compellingand incisive examination of precarious employment,capitalism, immigration and the mass production of living things , all interwoven with the protagonist’s thoughts onliterature and the nature of storytelling.A genre-bendingand dystopian eco-thriller, Living Things is a punk-likeblend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives andSamanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream , heralding an excitingnew voice in international fiction.