Tender Is The Flesh
Tender Is The FleshAuthor: Agustina Bazterrica amazon.comshermans.com Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, published in 2020, imagines a world where a virus makes all animals deadly to humans, forcing humanity to turn to “special meat” harvested from humans. The story follows Marcos, a butcher wrestling with loss, grief, and a society that has re-learned how to name its victims. The novel interrogates language, dehumanization, and the ethics of survival. Bazterrica repeatedly shows how words reshape reality: “lava that’s cold and viscous” and “Nullify, he thinks, another world that silences the horror.” By renaming people as “heads,” the regime enforces a chilling bureaucratic cruelty. ...