Beauty Salon

Originally translated to English in 2009, this title had fallen out of print and has now been revived as a part of Deep Vellum's efforts to publish and promote Mario Bellatin's dossier (thanks to our acquisition of Phoneme). Beauty Salon is a modern classic of queer fiction and pandemic fiction (while the illness is unnamed, in part due to its original publication in 1994 it has been read as the major AIDS novel of Latin America). Both readings make it an incredibly timely republication. It has since its publication been considered a vital text to Latin American literature.