Tender is the flesh : a novel / Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of SImon & Schuster, Inc., 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Scribner trade paperback editionDescription: 211 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781982150921
- 1982150920
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Main Library | Fiction | BAZTERRI AGUSTINA | Available | Noted small stain on top pages Jan. 2023 | 33111010382766 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"The electrifying, award-winning, internationally bestselling novel about a dystopian world in which animals have been wiped out, humans are being harvested for food, and society has been divided into those who eat and those who are eaten"-- Provided by publisher.
In English. Translated from the Spanish.