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A review by jonathan_piers
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
5.0
Damn…….this is one of the best books I have read and yet I don’t think most people should read it. It is incredibly dark, depressing, graphic, gory, and uncomfortable. Yet the author uses this as a backdrop for a powerful story.
On the surface, this book about a society where all animals have died off and people have turned to the farming of humans and legal cannibalism for meat, is a critique of factory farming that will have some swearing off meat for life.
However the underlying message that waited throughout were elements of government control, censorship, propaganda, the “big brother” state and human nature. These ideas were powerful in the context of the story and kept me glued to the page and wanting to burn the book all at the same time. It was very Orwellian and I ended up loving this guy punch of a book. But again, I don’t know who I would recommend it to.
This one will be with me for a long time.
On the surface, this book about a society where all animals have died off and people have turned to the farming of humans and legal cannibalism for meat, is a critique of factory farming that will have some swearing off meat for life.
However the underlying message that waited throughout were elements of government control, censorship, propaganda, the “big brother” state and human nature. These ideas were powerful in the context of the story and kept me glued to the page and wanting to burn the book all at the same time. It was very Orwellian and I ended up loving this guy punch of a book. But again, I don’t know who I would recommend it to.
This one will be with me for a long time.