Tender Is the Flesh
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Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
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Readers say *Tender Is the Flesh* by Agustina Bazterrica is a dark, disturbing dystopian novel that explores human cruelty and societal decay with uns...
The best book that I will never read again.
I genuinely enjoyed the narrative but it took some WORK to get past the setting. If you can roll with the spirit of the novel then you get to see a fantastic break down of grief from a male perspective. It resonated with me in that way.
But it also put me off meat for about a week.
Me queda claro que las argentinas son las reinas del horror (lo digo por Mariana Enriquez tamb) . Me vuela la cabeza su manera de contar el género .
El libro me mantuvo todo el tiempo enganchada pero a la vez con un semblante de disgusto y el pensamiento constante de “que mierdas estoy leyendo?”
Cinco estrellas porque no he leído nada q se le parezca , me hizo sentir muchísimas cosas y me absorbió totalmente en la descripción de ambientes
El libro me mantuvo todo el tiempo enganchada pero a la vez con un semblante de disgusto y el pensamiento constante de “que mierdas estoy leyendo?”
Cinco estrellas porque no he leído nada q se le parezca , me hizo sentir muchísimas cosas y me absorbió totalmente en la descripción de ambientes
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