Tender is the Flesh (Paperback)

Bazterrica plunges her readers into a whirlpool of indescribable inhumanity. This book will pull you in, take hold, and not let go until you reach the final page - perhaps far longer than that. Without a doubt, my favourite read of this year

What a compelling, terrible beauty this novel is. My heart was breaking even as my skin was crawling

A brutal tale of what humans are capable of inflicting on themselves when social norms collapse. Grotesque, gloriously nasty. Utterly compelling - Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them

There's nothing described that isn't done to livestock... grimly engrossing, with a sucker-punch ending. And it may well put you off that bacon sandwich - Siobhan Murphy, The Times

Horribly effective... This provocative novel expertly wields a double-edged cleaver... "in the end, meat is meat, it doesn't matter where it's from", it's a statement of both dystopic extremity and banal everyday fact - Justine Jordan, Guardian

There's nothing described that isn't done to livestock... grimly engrossing, with a sucker-punch ending. And it may well put you off that bacon sandwich - The Times

Provocative, muscular and entirely unforgiving, this terrifying novel is a timely reminder that words have the power to strip us of our humanity. I gulped it down with my heart racing - Sue Rainsford, author of Follow Me to Ground

A compelling dystopian novel - Independent

This is a hideous, bold and unforgettable vision of the future. Just make sure you've eaten before picking it up - i-D Magazine

Sitting comfortably? Not after even the tiniest nibble of this gut-churning, brilliantly realised novel - Daily Mail

Told with a chilly aloofness that makes the horror of it all the more disturbing - Financial Times

A thrilling dystopia that everyone should read - Dazed

A skin crawling yet compelling read - Refinery29

A powerful novel... a pure dystopian fable with no polemic and no preaching, just a stark "what if" narrative with a clear meaning, leading to a nightmare end - Sydney Morning Herald

Unflinching until the end, with a disturbing finale that leaves you as dazed as one of the poor specimens in the abattoir - Culturefly

[A] provocative Argentinian prizewinner - Guardian

[A] captivating dystopia... A biting and uncompromising expression of what happens daily in our society - La Nación

Hypnotic, gruesome, beautiful, captivates the reader within moments - El Imparcial

A fable on the gruesome side of the modern world, impressionistic and poetic - Clarín