Beauty Salon
of Mario Bellatin, Kurt Hollander (Translation)
Description
"Like much of Mr. Bellatinâs work, Beauty Salon is pithy, allegorical and profoundly disturbing, with a plot that evokes The Plague by Camus or Blindness by JosĂ© Saramago."--New York Times"Including a few details that may linger uncomfortably with the reader for a long time, this is contemporary naturalism as disturbing as it gets."--BooklistA strange plague appears in a large city. Rejected by family and friends, some of the sick have nowhere to finish out their days until a hair stylist decides to offer refuge. He ends up converting his beauty shop, which heâs filled with tanks of exotic fish, into a sort of medieval hospice. As his âguestsâ continue to arrive and to die, his isolation becomes more and more complete in this dream-hazy parable by one of Mexicoâs cutting-edge literary stars.Mario Bellatin, the author of numerous short novels, was born in Mexico City in 1960. In 2000, Beauty Salon was nominated for the MĂ©dicis Prize for best novel translated into French. This is its first translation into English.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72 pages
- Publisher City Lights Publishers
- Publication Date July 1st 2009
- First Publication 11/05/94
- Language English
- ISBN 9780872864733
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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