The Unworthy
by Agustina Bazterrica
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Pub Date 13 Mar 2025 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh.
In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment.
Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge.
Then Lucía arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different. And her arrival brings a single spark of hope to a world of darkness.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781805331858 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 192 |
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Featured Reviews
Vikki P, Book Trade Professional
Having recently devoured Tender is the Flesh, I was desperate to get my hands on this new novel, and it absolutely didn't disappoint. Dark, seductive, and truly haunting.
Andrija F, Educator
If you thought you heard a tinny scream in the distance a few days ago - you did. It was my squeal of utter pleasure after Pushkin Press approved my ARC request on Netgalley. I had been doing (impatient) dances of joy ever since I saw that the translation of a new Agustina Bazterrica was forthcoming, and it did not disappoint. The novel is as merciless as Tender Is the Flesh, offering a terrifying vision of a post-apocalyptic future that only Bazterrica could create. The bleakness in The Unworthy is cumulative, so I won't give away any details, but the less you know, the harder the blow when you start to understand the relentlessness of the horror in the world of The Unworthy. The novel could easily be read and dismissed as a post-apocalyptic cli-fi or whatever other genre fiction, but that is where Bazterrica's genius lies: she describes the horrors that are just around the corner and asks us to think about what is being done in our name and how we came to live in (a slippery step away from?) the worst of all possible worlds.
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