Tender Is the Flesh
Tender Is the FleshAgustina Bazterrica
Characters in Tender Is the Flesh
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Marcos Tejo
A supervisor at a human-meat processing plant, hollowed by grief over his infant son's death and moving through the industry with self-protecting detachment.
Supporting characters
Don Armando (Tender Is the Flesh)
Marcos's father, whose dementia has reduced him to a resident of a nursing home Marcos pays for and visits alone.
Marisa (Tender Is the Flesh)
Marcos's status-obsessed sister, who leaves their father's care entirely to Marcos and owns a "domestic head" of her own.
Cecilia (Tender Is the Flesh)
Marcos's estranged wife, a nurse, withdrawn from him since the death of their infant son.