Slaughterhouse

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Slaughterhouse

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A frightening, incredibly realistic and absolutely addictive allegory of the growing obscurantism in the world. One of the most prosperous countries, Sweden, has decided to make a “beautiful new world” by clearing it of people who do not meet the standards of a healthy lifestyle - from everyone who has a weight exceeding the norm set by the government. The country is rapidly sinking into prejudice, scapegoating and a cult of personality. Politician Juhan Sverd came to power on the basis of his main campaign promise: fighting the obesity epidemic. Pastries, meat, sweets and much more are now illegal. If you don’t fit into the norm, then you get official warnings, neighbors look askance, insults fly after you on the street. But this is only the beginning. Churches are gradually turning into gyms, farms are closing, all ways to lose weight are aggressively advertised on TV - from diets to surgery ... The young historian Landon watches in despair as his girlfriend gradually sinks into anorexia. Nurse Helena lost her job due to the fact that, according to the new regulations, overweight nurses have a bad effect on patients. Author Gloria falls into the trap set by the Health Party, ready to do anything to end obesity. The fat people are slowly starting to disappear. And then just big people disappear. When Helena also disappears, Landon sets out to find her. Osa Eriksdotter's novel is a terrible vision of how discrimination can quickly become the norm, how civilizedness flies off a person, how easy it is to deceive us all. 

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Publication language: Russian

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