Agustina Bazterrica – författare

New special edition with a new afterword by the author of this shocking dystopian novel and TikTok sensation in which cannibalism is legal

If everyone was eating human meat, would you?

Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her tied up in an outhouse, a problem to be disposed of later. But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost - and what might still be saved...

READER REVIEWS

'As thought provoking as it is bone chilling''Intoxicatingly terrifying''Relentlessly twisted... Has stuck with me more than a year later''Sickening in every way... Unforgettable'

The viral TikTok sensation: the dystopian cannibal horror everyone is talking about

'A thrilling dystopia that everyone should read' DAZED'A hideous, bold, unforgettable vision of the future' i-D MAGAZINE

If everyone was eating human meat, would you?

Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her tied up in an outhouse, a problem to be disposed of later.But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost - and what might still be saved...

READER REVIEWS

'As thought provoking as it is bone chilling''Intoxicatingly terrifying''Relentlessly twisted... Has stuck with me more than a year later''Sickening in every way... Unforgettable'

NEW IN PAPERBACK A fearsomely dark, incantatory dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh

'Barbaric, brutal and utterly beautiful. The Unworthy is a searing haunt of a novel that I will never forget' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB

In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment.

Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge.

Then Lucía arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different. And her presence brings a single spark of hope to a world of darkness.

A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh

'Barbaric, brutal and utterly beautiful. The Unworthy is a searing haunt of a novel that I will never forget' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB

In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment.

Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge.

Then Lucía arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different. And her presence brings a single spark of hope to a world of darkness.

Utsökt kadaver är en dystopisk skildring av en framtid där ett dödligt virus lett till att alla djur har utplånats. Förlusten av slaktdjuren har dock inte fått köttätandet att upphöra. Tvärtom. För att tillfredsställa efterfrågan på kött har man börjat avla fram människor till slaktindustrin. Övergången från att äta djur till människor sker stegvis. Snart kallas det som först benämns »särskilt kött« bara »kött«. I romanen följer vi Marcos som arbetar som slakteriinspektör och som försöker hitta ett sätt att utforma sitt liv i den nya tiden. Utsökt kadaver är dock inte bara en fiktiv skildring av en framtida värld. Boken ställer också indirekt kritiska frågor om vår egen tid och vår industriella produktion av kött.

Agustina Bazterrica föddes 1974 i Buenos Aires och är idag en av de mest omtalade författarna från Argentina. Hennes andra roman Utsökt kadaver vann det prestigefyllda priset Premio Clarin Novela. 

Här presenteras romanen för svenska läsare i översättning av Lina Wolff.