The short, sharp sentences help the novel move along and maintain the sense of high-stakes dread. Weeks after finishing the book, I could still detail to you how the processing plant handles the heads, or how birds could potentially kill you in seconds. One day, he is gifted a female head by a grateful customer, and after tying her up in an outhouse, Marcos has a decision to make on her future.īatzerrica is an exceptional writer at several points of the book I had to put it down for a few minutes to process, and throughout the dystopian world created is clear and immersive. Marcos manages a processing plant of ‘heads’, and we follow him as he spends his days training new recruits, inspecting shipments, and meetings the whims of ‘game’ hunters. Some of that is due to the busy-ness of work at the moment, but largely, it’s due to the many, many thoughts I had on the book and how long I’ve needed them to sit and stew in my mind.īazterrica’s novel, translated wonderfully by Sarah Moses, deposits the reader in a dystopian nearish future where humans now eat ‘special meat’ a mysterious virus has lead to the deaths of almost all animal life and driven humans across the world to cannibalism. I read Tender is the Flesh in one sitting, but it’s taken me quite a few weeks to sit down and write this review.
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