Tender is the Flesh

by Agustina Bazterrica

Sarah Moses (Translator)

It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal.

Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a gift to seal a deal: a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed of later.

But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost - and what might still be saved.

• ISBN10: 1782275576
• ISBN13: 9781782275572
• Publish Date: 6 February 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 4 April 2023
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Pushkin Press
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[maggiefan]

im shook

[rohshey]

If you are guna spoon feed an ethical lesson that I know is right but don't have the strength to live by it then atleast do it in a way that it's not redundant and boring.

[bearley]

Riveting idea that I thought I’d be able to stomach. Kept hoping for a glimmer of hope or joy and it never appeared. Hoped to read a commentative dystopian novel, but it was just excessive torture porn. In the end it was one dimensional brutality.