Of Cattle and Men Glacier Bay It’s All History

It’s All History

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

farm and feast

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where civilians are always the main victims

Of Cattle and Men Glacier Bay It’s All HistoryAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil. In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milos slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever