Slaughterhouse
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Slaughterhouse
14.99 €
11.99 €
A frightening, incredibly realistic and absolutely addictive allegory of the world's growing obscurantism. One of the most prosperous countries, Sweden, has decided to organize a "beautiful new world", cleansing it of people who do not meet the standards of a healthy lifestyle - from everyone who weighs more than the government-defined norm. The country is rapidly sinking into prejudice, scapegoating and cults of personality. Politician Johan Sverd came to power on the strength of his main election promise: fighting the obesity epidemic. Pastries, meat, sweets and more are outlawed from now on. If you don't eat within the norm, you'll get official warnings, neighbors will cower, and insults will fly in the street. But that's just the beginning. Churches are gradually turning into fitness halls, farms are closing, TV aggressively advertises all the ways to lose weight - from diets to surgery ... Young historian Landon in despair watches his girlfriend gradually sink into anorexia. Nurse Helena has lost her job because new guidelines say overweight nurses are a bad influence on patients. Writer Gloria falls into a trap set by the Health Party is willing to do anything to end obesity. The fatties slowly begin to disappear. And then just big people disappear. When Helena disappears as well, Landon sets out to find her. Wasp Eriksdotter's novel is a terrifying vision of how discrimination can rapidly become the norm, how civility falls off, how easy it is to deceive us all.
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