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Beauty SalonBeauty Salon

Beauty Salon2009

Mario Bellatin

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A 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 he’s filled with tanks of exotic fish, into a sort of medieval hospice. As his “guests” continue to arrive and to die, his isolation becomes more and more complete in this dream-hazy parable by one of Mexico’s cutting-edge literary stars.

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First published
2009
OL Work ID
OL2412797W

Subjects

Beauty shopsDiseasesGay menFictionMexican fictionPeruvian MexicansPlagueAIDS (Disease)EpidemicsPeluquerosSalones de bellezaEpidemiasFicciónLGBTQ HIV/AIDSLGBTQ novelsStonewall Book AwardsFiction, general

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