Mario Bellatin’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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