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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1985
  • Latest Book:
    November 2004
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • 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...



  • 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 museā€"artis...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Structured like a jazz riff, this novel addresses questions of conception and birth, gender, war, and the slouch toward apocalypse....




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cecile Pineda has published 6 books.

Cecile Pineda does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Redoubt, was published in November 2004.

The first book by Cecile Pineda, Face, was published in May 1985.

No. Cecile Pineda does not write books in series.