Tensiune, frustrare, realitate.

This unique dystopian book tells the story of a life without animal meat, when semi human beings are raised and killed to fulfill the need for meat of the population.

Marcos’ wife has left him after they lost their baby. He needs to take care of his father, who’s suffering from dementia and is being hospitalized in a very expensive care center. His father used to be the headmaster of a slaughterhouse (ironic, isn’t it? to be the one that gets the highest pay from killing animals and now not being able to live in the moment) and now Marcos is one of the most important employee of his father’s late slaughterhouse, now owned by another man. As Marcos’ job is to supervise the quality and the process of meat, he recieves a gift from one of his colleagues - a woman human being designed for her meat.

The so disturbing elements were not so disturbing for me�� I’ve read Bruckner’s Bitter Moon when in highschool and that was shocking and disgusting at the same time. This one here was just a beautiful metaphor (told in a universe we don’t enjoy thinking of) to what us people are: killers. We kill animals and feel nothing about it. We can kill human beings and get to the point when don’t feel anything about it, too. We raise children in labs, we like to feel powerful, we love to use a person for what we need and then to throw that person away, we need to fulfill our needs with any cost, some of us are fanatics, some of us don’t give a damn about this world, children are disconnected to this world, we can’t scream our pain out of our bodies, the old ones are lost in the days when there was harmony and peace in this world and they don’t want to live nowadays, having and conceving a healthy child now is a miracle. As a reader, you find parts of yourself both in the humans designed for their meat and in the eaters, too. This book shows exactly the truth about this world, it’s nothing new, because deep down, it’s the reality we are living in: we love to kill only because we can

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