https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:17:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/living-things/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=41206 A genre-bending, literary eco-thriller, Living Things follows four recent graduates whose summer plans to work abroad take a sinister turn. 

]]> 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.  

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