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Death Gives Life a Makeover in Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon

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December 15, 2021 | Mark Axelrod-Sokolov

Photo by Geoff Stahl / Flickr Originally published in 1994, Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon, translated by David Shook (Deep Vellum, 2021), takes place in an unnamed c...

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