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Beauty Salon

By (author) Mario Bellatin, Translated by David Shook

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Mario Bellatinâ€™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.

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Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Deep Vellum Publishing
Published date | 2 Dec 2021
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 112
Dimensions | 203 x 127 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-6460-5073-4
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BISAC | fiction / literary

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The Memory Collectors: A Novel

Dete Meserve
Paperback / softback
320 pages

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Living in a hut in 21st Century South Africa

Monde Ndandani
Paperback / softback
142 pages
was: R 220.95
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Survive the AI Apocalypse: A guide for solutionists

Bronwen Williams
Paperback / softback
232 pages
was: R 341.95
now: R 307.95
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Let's stare the future down and, instead of fearing AI, become solutionists.

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The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
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352 pages
was: R 296.95
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