Beauty Salon

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By Mario Bellatin

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Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin is set in a dystopian world plagued by a mysterious disease. A former beauty salon has been transformed into a hospice for the dying, managed by a resigned hair stylist. The narrative explores the themes of isolation, compassion, and human mortality through the lens of the salon's androgynous caretaker, creating a poignant reflection on life and death.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by themes of mortality and the human condition woven into a haunting narrative. It offers a lyrical exploration of an epidemic's impact on society, intertwining beauty and decay through a meditative prose that blurs reality and myth.

Beauty Salon

Mario Bellatin's earth-shattering allegory of plague that brought him to his cult status as auteur of Latin America's most singular literary vision, in a brand-new translation by poet and translator Shook.

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Description

Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin presents a complex dreamscape in a brand-new translation, offering a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victims to an inscrutable pandemic.

In a large, unnamed city, a strange and highly infectious disease begins to spread. It afflicts its victims with an excruciating descent toward death, particularly unsparing in its assault on those at society's margins. Spurned by their loved ones and denied treatment by hospitals, the sick are left to die on the streets.

A beauty salon owner, whose previous caretaking experience extended only to the exotic fish tanks scattered among his workstations, opens his doors as a refuge. In this ramshackle Morgue, victim to persecution and violence, he accompanies his male guests as they suffer through the lifeless anticipation of certain death, eventually leaving the wistful narrator in complete, ill-fated isolation.

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Beauty Salon is praised for its pithy, allegorical storytelling and is compared to works by Camus and Saramago. It offers a profound exploration of themes like death and decay, serving as a model for living and dying honestly. The book's disturbing details are highlighted for their lasting impact on readers, marking a significant moment in Mexican and Latin American literature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781646050734

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 December 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by David Shook

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

Mexican writer Mario Bellatin has published dozens of novels with major and minor publishing houses throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including The Large Glass and Jacob the Mutant, both from Phoneme Media. A practicing Sufi, Bellatin has won many international prizes, including, most recently, Cuba's 2015 Jose Mara Arguedas Prize. He lives in Mexico City, Mexico.

Shook's many translations include work by Mario Bellatin, Tedi Lpez Mills, and Vctor Tern. Their collection of poetry, Our Obsidian Tongues, was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. They live in Los Angeles.