num_pages: 209
description: Working at the local processing plant Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans though no one calls them that anymore.His wife has left him his father is sinking into dementia and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all it happened so quickly. First it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now eating human meatspecial meatis legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers consignments processing.Then one day hes given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though hes aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon he becomes tortured by what has been lostand what might still be saved.
language: English
title: Tender is the Flesh
publisher: Scribner