{"product_id":"face-9781609403454","title":"Face","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it was first published in 1985, Face met with critical acclaim and established Cecile Pineda among the very first Latina writers in the United States to be published by a major New York house. This new expanded edition, which marks the announcement of \u003cem\u003eFace\u003c\/em\u003e as a 2013 Neustadt Prize finalist, features a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning author J. M. Coetzee and a never-before-published interview with the author conducted by Dr. Francisco Lomelí.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe novel—based on an actual event—tracks the fortunes of Helio Cara, a poor but brilliant Brazilian man. When he hears that his mother is dying, Helio rushes from his shack in one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to the local telegraph office, only to fall down a steep hillside and literally lose his face, and in turn his identity. He rapidly loses his job, his lover, and his friends—his neighbour’s go so far as to burn down his shack—and flees to the Brazilian interior to live as an outcast in his mother’s tiny house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pineda deftly, hauntingly records Helio Cara’s decision to perform self-surgery, using only novocaine, to reconstruct his face and identity. This compelling metaphor for identity, already taught in American and Latino literature courses in numerous universities, stands ready to engross a new generation of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is an immediacy to her narrative, combined with images that startle our senses, that leave us haunted.”  —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A poetic, hallucinatory work, finely and sparely written.”  —\u003ci\u003eNewsday \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cecile Pineda is an American original, a literary treasure, and her prodigiously inventive and important work . . . deserves a place in the forefront of American literature.\" \u003ci\u003e —Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Wings Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188842127703,"sku":"9781609403454","price":14.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/face-9781609403454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}