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A review by norspider
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
5.0
All animals are infected! They are unsafe to be around, interact with, or consume! This doesn't apply to humans, though...
After a virus renders all animals inedible, and thusly destroyed for safety, those with power and influence decided to legalize cannibalism. Not just legalize it, profit from it.
We follow Marcos Tejo (a protagonist not meant to be liked) who runs a processing plant for "special meat." Through his eyes we see the ins-and-outs of this new business, and how ghastly it is. The use of language in this book is brilliant. By taking concepts we are familiar with for livestock we see how atrocious the practice of factory farming is. Seeing humans put through the same abhorrent conditions is truly upsetting. A tapestry of the grotesque woven through an anti-capitalist, anti-establishment message.
I couldn't turn away from every gut-wrenching chapter of this book. With one of the greatest final lines of any book I have ever read. I can't wait to see what else Bazterrica writes.
After a virus renders all animals inedible, and thusly destroyed for safety, those with power and influence decided to legalize cannibalism. Not just legalize it, profit from it.
We follow Marcos Tejo (a protagonist not meant to be liked) who runs a processing plant for "special meat." Through his eyes we see the ins-and-outs of this new business, and how ghastly it is. The use of language in this book is brilliant. By taking concepts we are familiar with for livestock we see how atrocious the practice of factory farming is. Seeing humans put through the same abhorrent conditions is truly upsetting. A tapestry of the grotesque woven through an anti-capitalist, anti-establishment message.
I couldn't turn away from every gut-wrenching chapter of this book. With one of the greatest final lines of any book I have ever read. I can't wait to see what else Bazterrica writes.