Munir Hachemi: 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.