Cecile Pineda

• May-1985
• / General Fiction
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Nominated for a 1985 American Book Award, this first novel centers on a Brazilian man whose face is horribly disfigured in an accident. Helio Cara loses his job, his mistress, his friends, and then seeks to create a new visage through a grisly form o...

• Nov-1986
• / General Fiction
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This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the museâ€"artis...

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination....

• Dec-2001
• / General Fiction
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A New York Times Notable Book This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.  Sly magic realism; if Pineda's novel imitates (and occasionally parodies) instead of breaking ground, it's stil...

• Nov-2002
• / Literary
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Depicting the 20th century as a character, this novel explores what happens when that character, dying, passes through a Bardo state -- an intermediate state of the soul between death and rebirth....

• Nov-2004
• / General Fiction
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Structured like a jazz riff, this novel addresses questions of conception and birth, gender, war, and the slouch toward apocalypse....