Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina BazterricaNot for the faint hearted nor the squeamish, but a gripping, dystopian horror which is essentially a critique of the way we factory farm animals for meat.
A virus has poisoned off all the worlds animals. Humans have to find something to eat in their place. After their transition to this new source of meat protein the slaughterhouses, butcheries, tanneries, Food safety regulations and even research laboratories have all been repurposed to raise, slaughter and process this 'special meat'.
This is the second Argentinian writer of horror and I have recently - see my review of Diego Muzzi's The Eye of Goliath, and I note that I have read previously other Argentinian writers such as Samanta Schweblin who also write horror and wonder why this country is generating so much quality work in this genre now - historical trauma? I found this article which proposes why this might be
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