Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica

A ruthless dystopia in which Agustina Bazterrica inspires, with the explosive power of fiction, highly topical debates.

The sudden appearance of a lethal virus that attacks animals irreversibly changes the world: from wild beasts to pets, all must be systematically sacrificed, and their meat can no longer be consumed. Governments confront the situation with a drastic decision: legalizing the breeding, reproduction, slaughter, and processing of human meat. Cannibalism is law, and society has been divided into two groups: those who eat and those who are eaten.

Marcos Tejo, general manager of the Krieg slaughterhouse, separated from his wife and in charge of his father, is an obscure bureaucrat. The day he receives a woman raised for consumption as a gift, temptations transform him into a dangerous consciousness with gruesome twists that will lead him to transgress the new norms to limits unknown to society.

What remains of humanity when the dead are cremated to prevent their consumption? Who is the other if, truly, we are what we eat?

Clarín Novel Prize, Ladies of Horror Fiction Award, one of the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror books of 2020 according to The Washington Post, and a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards.

With more than 200,000 readers worldwide, translated into 23 languages, and audiovisual rights sold.