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A review by husnaibrahim_
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
4.75
This was quite a disturbing yet intriguing read! Initially, I felt really disturbed and unsettled by the story. I kept thinking ‘what is wrong with these people? Well, at least Marcos seems like the only decent one from the bunch.’ Then he went on to do something possibly worse than breeding and eating flesh!
But I really wonder, in such a situation, how can we even determine which is worse—the actions of the government and society or what Marcos did, despite claiming a higher moral ground?
Then I think the way his wife got roped into it all at the end was cruel too. Yes they were both grieving, clearly in different ways, but it’s all just truly messed up.
I was really starting to hope that they might have been a possibility that Jasmine would eventually become a person of her own, have her own thoughts and be able to make her own decisions in that society, but I guess it seemed like too much hope or delusion.
Also I find it really funny that Gaston says this right before he offers himself to be slaughtered:
“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
It takes all kinds, truly!
But I really wonder, in such a situation, how can we even determine which is worse—the actions of the government and society or what Marcos did, despite claiming a higher moral ground?
Then I think the way his wife got roped into it all at the end was cruel too. Yes they were both grieving, clearly in different ways, but it’s all just truly messed up.
I was really starting to hope that they might have been a possibility that Jasmine would eventually become a person of her own, have her own thoughts and be able to make her own decisions in that society, but I guess it seemed like too much hope or delusion.
Also I find it really funny that Gaston says this right before he offers himself to be slaughtered:
“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
It takes all kinds, truly!