Complete Works of Cecile Pineda

When a Brazilian man's face is disfigured, he attempts a grisly self-surgery in this novel of survival.

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

This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.

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 muse–artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work-a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler against the creative expression of a single slave.

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.

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.