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August 20251

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We Eat People Now—And No One Minds.

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2 out of 5 Anaesthetised Consciences) Length: 224 pages Publisher: Pushkin Press Genre: Literary Horror / Corporate Dystopia / Minimalist Bleakness Tone: Meticulous, grim, emotionally cauterised 🧠 The Premise: Sharp, Sleek, and Starving for Depth Bazterrica’s high concept deserves instant attention: a virus contaminates all animal meat, leaving humanity without livestock. The state responds not with compassion or collective sacrifice, but with legalised cannibalism. Humans are rebranded as “heads,” a consumable resource. Abattoirs adapt. The law adapts. The language adapts. It’s an idea at once grotesque and disturbingly plausible—an allegory of how easily human dignity can be bureaucratically dismantled. The novel invites us to consider how much of our morality is structural convenience. If the rules shift, so too does our sense of right and wrong. And yet, after that stunning proposition, the novel treads water...

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