Tender is the Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica

AUTHOR : Augustina Bazterrica

GENRE :DYSTOPIAN

QUICK TAKE:

A hideous, bold and unforgettable vision of the future. Just make sure you've eaten before picking it up

SYNOPSIS:

It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat becamepoisonous. 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 the specimen haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, her eyes that watch him, that seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost and what might still be saved...

RECOMMENDATION :

'Stting comfortably? Not after even the tiniest nibble of this gut-churning, brilliantly realised novel'

-- Daily Mail

'Told with a chilly aloofness that makes the horror of it all the more disturbing'

- Financial Times

'A thrilling dystopia that everyone should read'

-Dazed

BINDING : Papercover

PAGES: 224

Availabilty: In Stock