On a chill and stormy day, a man slips and plunges over a cliff into an experience that will change his life forever. But Helio Cara's fall from a cliff is not merely a fall that results in horrific disfigurement. It is a fall from grace. The fabric of his daily existence comes unraveled as jobless, penniless, deserted by lover and friends; he is driven from his home by horrified neighbors. At last, using needle, thread, and razor blades, he determines to reconstruct his own face and to rebuild a place for himself in the world. Face is the story of a man at the limit of existence who finds the patience and courage to change himself. With power, intensity and sparseness of poetry, it voices the predicament of all people who partake of a culture, which separates the individual's notion of self from his sense of community.

Face

Pineda, Cecile

Pineda

Literature & Fiction

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Expelled from her demure convent school for swimming nude, led kicking and screaming to the alter, Ana Magdalena Figueroa is kidnapped on her wedding night only to escape and find refuge in the arms of the man of her savagely hot adolescent fantasies. Her marriage to the patrician but penniless writer, Federico Orgaz y Orgaz leads her to even more colorful adventures, from her blissful initiation into the flourishing bordello of her Aunt Ofelia to her apotheosis as the Madam extraordinaire of the legendary Confiteria. Meanwhile, Federico takes his cue from the subversively wicked stories his wife tells him to find his writing suddenly taking off at a new and flourishing pace. Exploring the nature of romance, deceit, and female desire, Cecile Pineda blends social and political satire with magic realism in a tour-de-force of stunning originality.

The Love Queen of the Amazon

Set in ninth-century Java, Frieze chronicles the life of Gopal, a stone carver imported from the stone yards of India to design and execute 120 friezes depicting the life of the Buddha. The site is the first gallery of the temple/stupa of Borobudur, a vast monument that required some 80 years and tens of thousands of people to construct, most of them indentured as slaves. Borrowing from the actual images found at Borobudur in Jogjakarta, Pineda narrates Gopal's story in 120 successive images, moving from his early apprenticeship, his marriage to two women, the wife of his heart, and the keeper of his household, to the privations of his life in exile, and the terrible price extracted for his pride. Shaping the splendor of a new world with his chisel, blow by blow, just as painstakingly, he learns the meaning of love.

Frieze

Poetry

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Face

The Love Queen of the Amazon

Frieze