5/20/2023 0 Comments Tender is the flesh paperback![]() ![]() She is praised for her talent, for the way she cuts the meat apart and takes off the skin. Later on, it is revealed that Marcos was having an affair with the town butcher, Spanel, a woman who is written as stoic and cold. Because of Leo’s death and having been unable to have more children, Marcos became estranged from his wife, Cecilia. It is revealed that Marcos lost a child, and, to avoid his son, Leo, being eaten, he had to watch his own infant son be cremated. Bazterrica slowly unfolds Marcos’s life one chapter at a time. Marcos, the main character, works at a slaughterhouse, making money to help his father with dementia. Humans began to eat each other and a new economic market was created. ![]() ![]() The result of this is a society that executed all animals. This novel explores a fascinating question: What if we could no longer eat animals? What if a virus infected all the animals on earth and that virus was fatal to humans? “Tender is the Flesh” is a dystopian novel, originally written in Spanish by Agustina Bazterrica and translated into English by Sarah Moses. ![]()
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