Tender Is the Flesh
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Agustina Bazterrica
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.
Thriller
Horror
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Author
Agustina Bazterrica
Pages
224
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2020-08-04
ISBN
1982151307 9781982151300
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"Made me want to go vegetarian 🤢 "
Hannah Morris
"Wow! Crazy book! It’s got some similarities to animal farm but it’s completely original. It talks about issues today in society, which are current such as environmental issues and ‘fitting into the norm’. It has some stuff similar to the quarantine, it’s like no book ever written. Corrupted politicians and government systems, just everything including veganism! #horror #thriller #argentina #españoltoenglish #translated #book"
Daniella (she/her)
"Dark and disturbing. It also makes you think about how far would our society would go if there was really no animals left. "
Sandy Lopez
"🤔 a dystopian novel very good very eye-opening #dystopian #literary #dystopian_fiction "
Ty
"In a world where classism exist and depending on your class you are either food for higher rank or you are the higher rank, a guy who is used to killing many people and basically a serial killer, sees one day a random person who is meat as an almost person and gets with her and has a baby with her and then murder her, all so his wife can have a child. "She was becoming too human" is basically the end line. It's supposed to come across as some kind of veganism message but really it's zoophilia rap3 instead."
Red Reads
"Masterfully done and mercifully short. Absolutely disgusting, but read it!"
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CaitVD
"Wow, what did I read? Decent story here. Definitely eerie, creepy, dark and nasty. Still I found it interesting and glad I got through it. "
Joe H
"disturbingly fascinating and leaves you wishing humans weren't so disappointing. couldn't put it down and my jaw was on the floor the whole time. "
kelsey
"As someone who thinks about the fact that we are meat a lot I enjoyed this book. Meat/10"
grace
"This book is disturbing, and it isnt clear how deeply disturbing until the last page. Highly recommend this read if you want something shocking. "
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