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product_id: 6200531
title: "Beauty Salon"
brand: "mario bellatinkurt hollander"
price: "₪1043"
currency: ILS
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 5
url: https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/6200531-beauty-salon
store_origin: IL
region: Israel
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# Beauty Salon

**Brand:** mario bellatinkurt hollander
**Price:** ₪1043
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Beauty Salon by mario bellatinkurt hollander
- **How much does it cost?** ₪1043 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.il](https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/6200531-beauty-salon)

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## Description

Beauty Salon

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I would recommend it to anyone
*by A***R on June 17, 2016*

For a book less than 100 pages, I cannot believe how much of an emotional reaction it got out of me. It was definitely worth buying. It helped me shape my perspective more, towards life and my own mortality. I would recommend it to anyone, whether they too are Latino or part of the LGBT community or not, it was a great read. Heavy and full of emotion.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book
*by C***J on July 7, 2024*

Needed for a class, but it was an easy read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Dark Parable
*by F***N on October 21, 2016*

BEAUTY SALON, a novella by the Mexican writer Mario Bellatin and translated into English by Kurt Hollander, is a sad but ultimately life-affirming story told by an unnamed narrator who has converted his beauty salon, “Salon to the Stars,” into a hospice called the Terminal for men in the last stages of a horrific disease. Although the narrator never uses the word “AIDS ” it is obvious from his description of the sufferers that this is the awful disease that afflicts these individuals. He has rigid rules for this hospice: sufferers must be literally on their last legs, no lovers of the sick are allowed to visit them, no women with this disease are admitted and no crucifixes adorn the walls of the Terminal. There are no prayers offered up for the sick, and the Sisters of Charity are not welcome on the premises. Additionally the narrator has removed all the mirrors that used to adorn the salon. Even though he has become accustomed to seeing the dying men, he doesn’t want them to have to see themselves in the last stages of their illness.When the narrator had his salon, he had aquariums with exotic fish to make the shop more beautiful. Or as he says: “just the thing to make the place special.” He keeps some fish after he converts the salon into the home for these sick individuals. He compares the fish that are difficult to keep alive with the dying men.As awful as conditions were for AIDS sufferers in the first years of the epidemic in the U. S., these men dying as well as those who did not get a place in the Terminal fare much worse if that’s possible. And as grim as this little story is, we have to admire the narrator for taking care of his brothers just as gay men throughout America in their own quiet ways became unsung heroes as they cared for their friends and lovers. And if you want to put a name and face on a real-life hero, read STREET ZEN, the biography of Issan Dorsey, who went from a drag queen (the narrator at one time dressed and went into the streets to pick up men) and drug abuser to a Zen Buddhist who opened Maitri Hospice for people with AIDS in San Francisco. Sometimes life imitates art.

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*Store origin: IL*
*Last updated: 2026-01-23*