Beauty salon
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Author
Contributors
Shook, David (Poet), translator.
Published
Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Port Angeles - New Books - Fiction - New Books Shelves
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Published
Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
81 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
Mario Bellatin's complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly infectious disease begins to spread, afflicting its victims with an excruciating descent toward death, particularly unsparing in its assault of those on society's margins. Spurned by their loved ones and denied treatment by hospitals, the sick are left to die on the streets until 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 the 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.--Back cover.
Language
Translated from the Spanish.