Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

The dystopian horror everyone is talking about! Tiktok made me buy it!

'A hideous, bold, unforgettable vision of the future' i-D

'A thrilling dystopia that everyone should read' Dazed

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...