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I've come across many a happy couple in literature before but never anything quite like this: two lovers being a sow and a wolf. From their various Parisian apartments (or lairs when transformation occurs) whilst trying to avoid the authorities they regularly order take-out pizzas as a way to surviv Leggi tutto

*edited on 11.05.2021 Then the knife plunges in. The farmhand gives it two little shoves to push it through the thick skin, after which the long blade seems to melt through the neck fat as it sinks in up to the hilt.At first the boar doesn’t understand a thing, he remains stretched out for a few seco Leggi tutto

You have this friend, she’s been out of work for months. Then she gets this gig at a perfume counter, which also involves being a prostitute. She is routinely abused by her “clients” who use her for increasingly perverse sexual practices. She is also, at that time, transforming into a sow. You keep Leggi tutto

"No one talked in there, they all screamed, sang, drooled, ate on all fours and that kind of thing. We had fun." This stunning book caught me completely by surprise, it is brilliant, and it's right up my alley. It's full of viciousness and humor, remarkable understatement in the midst of insane circu Leggi tutto

A fusão dos universos femininos e suínos. A metamorfose de um humano no corpo de um animal não é inédito na literatura; contudo, neste livro, alcança contornos muito angustiantes para a minha condição de mulher. Há machismo, prostituição e banalização da mulher num texto com passagens incomodativas qu Leggi tutto

PT/EN "Estranhos Perfumes", de Marie Darrieussecq. Tradução de Miguel Serras Pereira. Com este livro bizarríssimo e violento, M. Darrieussecq criou uma história surrealista sobre uma sociedade ditatorial que tem início num período não determinado. A narradora-protagonista trabalha numa perfumaria ou, Leggi tutto

Few books have touched me as this one has! At the time of reading it, ten or so years ago, I actually got really scared and had a hard time sleeping for a couple of days. It's so bizarre but in a sense so realistic and true too human behaviour that it far exceeded the horror of most I'd seen/read up Leggi tutto

I never thought I would be the kind of person who would become a vegetarian, but some of the books I read lately made me reconsider eating meat and I'm afraid this book was the last drop. Pig Tales is about a young, naive, ambitious sex worker who slowly turns into a pig. It is set in some dystopian Leggi tutto

Scathing deadpan pitch-black satire, first on the more personal horrors of being a women within modern society, then a broader survey of society and politics, building into a truly cataclysmic fervor. In sheer startlingly hilarious vitriol, delivered in a mad rush of increasing insanity (with lack o Leggi tutto

★★★★☆ Llegué a este libro sin conocer absolutamente nada acerca de él, fue un regalo de mi madre, una auténtica lectora voraz. Me lo recomendó con tanto fervor que ardía en deseos de sumergirme entre sus páginas y lo cierto, es que lo que he encontrado entre ellas ha sido bestial. Esta historia está n Leggi tutto