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Cargando... Tender Is the Flesh (edición 2020)por Agustina Bazterrica (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. How far are you willing to take the phrase “playing with your food” ? ( ) Marcos is the son of a butcher whose primary focus, right now, is ensuring that his father, who has dementia, gets the care he needs and is respectfully cremated after his death. In this new world, where an infectious virus has supposedly made all animal meat and products poisonous to humans, it's not an easy goal. Meat for human consumption is supposed to come from genetically modified head, bred to age faster, or from First Generation Pure (FGP) head. Special meat isn't supposed to have a name, but it's not unheard of for deceased people to end up sold on the black market, and Marcos wants to make sure that never happens to his father. We're given detailed descriptions of what Marcos' job at a meat processing plant is like, as he talks to tanners, breeders, and others his company works with, and gives potential new hires a tour of his plant. He can barely stomach this work anymore, to the point that he secretly stops eating meat altogether, and it nearly pushes him over the edge when a client gifts him an FGP female. In case my description didn't make it clear, this book is set in a world where humans eat other humans. It's very clearly a message about the horrors of the meat industry, and it might have been more effective if I weren't a genre reader who found myself constantly questioning the world of this book. It didn't make any sense. Marcos and others strongly suspected that the virus that supposedly made all animal meat poisonous to humans was, in fact, a government conspiracy to reduce overpopulation. There was no believable explanation for why so many believed in the virus to the point of killing all nearby animals, including zoo animals and beloved pets, and the author paid zero attention to the ecological damage that this wholesale slaughter would have caused. Readers were also supposed to believe that the majority of people would accept "special meat" made out of humans as replacement for animal meat. The world-building was vague at best, dependent on the book's frequent on-page cruelties to keep readers from noticing. The story was populated by hordes of voiceless victims (literally, in the case of the people bred and raised to be meat - their vocal cords were removed) surrounded by monsters. Reading this was like watching a long string of torture porn-style ads supposedly meant to raise awareness about animal cruelty. On the plus side, finishing this means that I'm prepared for my next book club meeting, and I'm sure our discussion will be interesting. (Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: A causa de un virus mortal que afecta a los animales y contagia a los seres humanos, el mundo se ha convertido en un lugar gris, escptico e inhspito, y la sociedad se divide entre aquellos que comen y aquellos que son comidos. El Premio Clarn 2017 fue otorgado a esta novela mayor, una slida y escalofriante pesadilla futurista en la que el canibalismo es legitimado en gran parte del mundo a causa de un virus que afecta a los animales y resulta mortal para los seres humanos. Qu resto de humanismo puede caber cuando los cuerpos de los muertos son cremados para evitar su consumo? En qu lugar queda el vnculo con el otro si, de verdad, somos lo que comemos? En esta despiadada distopa -tan brutal como sutil, tan alegrica como realista-, Agustina Bazterrica inspira, con el poder explosivo de la ficcin, sensaciones y debates de suma actualidad. La crtica ha dicho... Novela mayor, cuya accin transcurre en el interior de una atmfera densa e hipntica en la que el lector queda atrapado desde las primeras lneas como si fuera uno de sus personajes. Una slida y escalofriante novela futurista con un inesperado final de cuento. Una alegora sobre la sociedad canbal en la que vivimos; un trama sorprendente y bien dosificada, escrita con una prosa afilada como un cuchillo. Con un lenguaje directo y despojado, Cadver Exquisito incursiona en los mecanismos siniestros de una sociedad distpica y canbal. Las imgenes, tanto repulsivas como fascinantes, se suceden una tras otra y recuerdan por momentos a los cuadros violentos de Francis Bacon y de Carlos Alonso. La novela rodea al lector con una sensacin de amenaza al volver visibles algunas prcticas oscuras y normalizadas de la vida cotidiana actual. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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