5/10/2023 0 Comments Book tender is the flesh![]() ![]() When his father – now suffering dementia – sold the tannery to pay off loans, Marcos became the right-hand man to the new owner, Señor Urami. ![]() Before the “transition” he worked at his father’s processing plant slaughtering sheep and cows. Not long after, they began to breed people as animals to supply the massive demand for meat.” We’re told all this by Marcos. ![]() ![]() “They adapted the processing plants and regulations. A rise in cannibalism – with immigrants and the indigent disappearing in large numbers – forces world leaders to act but rather than ban the consumption of human flesh, they lean into the practice, gradually transitioning society to a legalised form of cannibalism. In response, governments cull their livestock, empty their zoos, and mandate the use of umbrellas to prevent diseased birds from passing on the infection. The novel is set sometime in the future, when animals across the world have been infected by a virus that’s made them poisonous to eat. Tender Is the Flesh, by Argentinian author Agustina Bazterrica (and wonderfully translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses), is not for the faint of heart. Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica ( Scribner 978-2-1, $16.00, 224pp, tp) August 2020. ![]()
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