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Agustina Bazterrica

Tender is the Flesh

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'A thrilling dystopia that everyone should read' DAZED'A hideous, bold, unforgettable vision of the future' i-D MAGAZINE'A gut-churning, brilliantly realised novel' DAILY MAIL
If everyone was eating human meat, would you?
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 specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her tied up in an outhouse, 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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183 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Publisher
Pushkin Press
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  • Jynxshared an impression8 months ago
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    The book was trying too hard to be creepy. which imo makes the book not-scary

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    What the actual fuck was that ending I hated every second of it

  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈshared an impression3 years ago
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    I think I died at the last page

Quotes

  • Lois Deborahhas quoted5 days ago
    Our existence would be an exasperating shade of grey if we were all flawless.
  • Lois Deborahhas quoted13 days ago
    Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.
  • Lois Deborahhas quoted13 days ago
    But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing.

    Without the sadness, he has nothing left.

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