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3.8 · 40 ratings on Open Library · 1,405 want to read it

Published by ALFAGUARA · Fiction · ISBN 9788420433424

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A virus has made animal meat poisonous to people, and after what governments called the Transition, eating human meat is legal. Marcos works at a processing plant where people are slaughtered, although they are never called people now; his wife is gone, his father is losing his mind to dementia, and he tries not to think too much. One day he receives a live specimen of the best quality and, although all personal contact is forbidden, he begins to treat her as a human being.

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Who it's for
For readers of dystopian fiction willing to face harsh scenes, who want fiction that unsettles and makes them think about what we eat and how we treat others. The prose is direct and precise.
Why people still read it
It won the Clarín Novel Prize in 2017 and has been translated into more than thirty languages; outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian and Le Monde reviewed it.

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