false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245427308m/6447729.jpg 6447729 1 <p><span>"Including a few details that may linger uncomfortably with the reader for a long time, this is contemporary naturalism as disturbing as it gets."--<em>Booklist</em></span></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Mario Bellatin</strong>, the author of numerous short novels, was born in Mexico City in 1960. In 2000, <em>Beauty Salon</em> was nominated for the Médicis Prize for best novel translated into French. This is its first translation into English.</p> 6637814 book 1 8 2009 Beauty Salon total:28|5:6|4:7|3:13|2:2|1:0| 28 101 68 8 5 1 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:26:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 11:19:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 10 false false Tue Sep 29 01:53:13 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 14:20:44 -0700 2009


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