“Exquisite Corpse”, a book that shows us a possible future?

Author: Agustina Bazterrica

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Label: Alfaguara

In this book we see how a lethal virus emerges that attacks animals and irreversibly modifies the world. From wild animals to pets, they must be systematically slaughtered, and their meat can no longer be consumed. The government faces the situation with a devastating decision, legalizing the breeding, reproduction, slaughter and processing of human meat.

Cannibalism is the law and society has been divided into two groups: those who eat and those who are eaten.

Marcos Tejo, general manager of the Krieg refrigerator, is an obscure bureaucrat. The day he receives as a gift a woman raised for consumption, temptations transform him into a dangerous conscience that will lead him to transgress norms to limits that society ignores.

In this ruthless dystopia, as brutal as it is subtle, as allegorical as it is realistic, Bazterrica inspires, with the explosive power of fiction, highly topical debates.

For us, this fiction shows us that, at some point in the not too distant future, the world we know can change radically when, due to a virus that affects animals, their consumption is prevented and humans begin to be raised for the chain. food.

Did you know him? Do you like this type of novels? How explicit and brutal it is is not for everyone... do you dare to read it?

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