Tender is the flesh agustina bazterrica6/20/2023 ![]() Like all good dystopian literature should. ![]() This novel just tears off illusions and excuses back to first causes and actions. ![]() We ignore and get on with our lives, occasionally disturbed but most of the time we ignore and have plenty of reasons why we can and should. Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans. We ignore it - once it was far away in 'poor' countries that we sent charity to now it is in shanty towns on our cities streets. Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews. Maybe the author is making us look at what we accept, at least those of us who are the lucky per cent at the top of the economic pyramid, the vast numbers who live and die in lives of appalling want and suffering. Nor could they bring a child into it if they really believed the world they lived was based on a obscenity. No one could possibly have such beliefs and continue functioning in a society like that. The storyline and characters were alright but these didn’t really do it for as much. It’s so graphic and disturbing that it’s pretty much the essence of why this novel is as popular as it is. Initially published in Argentina in 2017, the book’s 2020 debut into the English-speaking world coincided perfectly with the social trauma inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic. I think it made perfect sense within the whole drift of the novel - if he really was different, if he saw any of the heads, even Jasmine, as human then he couldn't continue living within the world as it was. Overall, I give Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica a 4/5 as it’s really the shock value of human meat that makes this a solid read. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is one of the most polarizing works of fiction I’ve had the pleasure (or rather, agony) of reading. ![]()
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