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Salón De Belleza (Andanzas) (Spanish Edition) (2000)

by Mario Bellatin(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9687723785 (ISBN13: 9789687723785)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

review 1: Read in one sitting, I enjoyed the lyrical style in which this novella was written. I particularly liked the sudden transition from talking about the fish tanks to talking about the sorrowfully wretched patients. I wanted to give this book four stars, but I despised the narrator (because of his dispassionate treatment of both his fish and his patients) so much that it affected my reading and I settled on three because of the beautiful flow.
review 2: A short, haunting, powerfully moving, beautifully written novella about an unnamed narrator/savior who turns his former beauty salon (where all the hairdressers were cross-dressing males beautifying primarily women) into a sort of hospice clinic for men dying of an unnamed plague (that looks and sounds a lot like... more AIDS), and he accepts only those men who are at the end of their lives with nowhere else to turn and no hope for recovery, and the beauty salon turns into a hospice where these dying men can take comfort in dying surrounded by their fellow sufferers, including the narrator . . . my first read by Mario Bellatin, and I want more (and I want to see more photos of this dude and the various prostheses he wears, apparently he was born without part of an arm). So stoked that City Lights brought this out. less

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