TY  - BOOK
AU  - Augustina Bazterrica
AU  - Sarah Moses (tr.)
TI  - TENDER IS THE FLESH: / Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses
SN  - 9781782275572
U1  - F 
PY  - 2020////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Pushkin Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  -  Cannibalism -- Fiction
KW  - Executions and executioners -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Spanish fiction
N1  - It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, ‘special meat’ – human meat – is legal.

Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans – only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he’s given a gift to seal a deal: a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed of later.

But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost – and what might still be saved
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