Products specifications
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Author
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Munir Hachemi |
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Pub Date
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20/06/2024 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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160 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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GBPPrice
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10.99 |
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Availability
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Not yet available |
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. Genre-bending and dystopian, Living Things is a literary eco-thriller, a punk-like blend of Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, and heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.
