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'

"This is a hideous, bold and unforgettable vision of the future. Just make sure you've eaten before picking it up" - i-D Magazine

"A thrilling dystopia that everyone should read" - Dazed

"There's nothing described that isn't done to livestock... grimly engrossing, with a sucker-punch ending. And it may well put you off that bacon sandwich" - The Times

"Sitting comfortably? Not after even the tiniest nibble of this gut-churning, brilliantly realised novel" - Daily Mail

"Chilling... elegantly translated... [a] very contemporary parable" - Observer

"Horribly effective... This provocative novel expertly wields a double-edged cleaver... "in the end, meat is meat, it doesn't matter where it's from", it's a statement of both dystopic extremity and banal everyday fact" - Guardian

"A compelling dystopian novel" - Independent

"Skin-crawling yet compelling read" - Refinery29

"Told with a chilly aloofness that makes the horror of it all the more disturbing" - Financial Times

"[A] provocative Argentinian prizewinner" - Guardian

"Unflinching until the end, with a disturbing finale that leaves you as dazed as one of the poor specimens in the abbatoir" - Culturefly

"Fresh and exciting" - Washington Post