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Winner of: Gold Medal, Commonwealth Club of California, The Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy and institute of Arts and Letters

Critical Praise for Face

• "Cecile Pineda, a new American novelist, transforms our dread fears of disfigurement and ugliness into a plangent epiphany of the human spirit. . . . Pineda will be compared to Cortazar, Borges, and Marquez. Compare away, if you must; she has breathed the life of drama, the mortality of the novel, and her own special grace into what she found. Cheers!"

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• "A poetic, hallucinatory work, finely and sparely written, the debut of a very talented writer indeed. May we see more?"

  — Newsday

• "Written with sparse prose, stark drama and pointed symbolism, the novel is an intensely moving tale of catastrophe and redemption, of the fall and unyielding will of the human spirit. The prose of this novel cuts like a surgeon's scalpel; not a word is wasted or out of place."

  — Nashville Banner

• "There is an immediacy to her narrative, combined with images that startle our senses, that leave us haunted."

  — San Francisco Chronicle

Reviews

• "Cecile Pineda, a new American novelist, transforms our dread fears of disfigurement and ugliness into a plangent epiphany of the human spirit. . . . Pineda will be compared to Cortazar, Borges, and Marquez. Compare away, if you must; she has breathed the life of drama, the mortality of the novel, and her own special grace into what she found. Cheers!" -– Los Angeles Times Book Review

  "A poetic, hallucinatory work, finely and sparely written, the debut of a very talented writer indeed. May we see more?" –- Newsday

  "Written with sparse prose, stark drama and pointed symbolism, the novel is an intensely moving tale of catastrophe and redemption, of the fall and unyielding will of the human spirit. The prose of this novel cuts like a surgeon's scalpel; not a word is wasted or out of place." -– Nashville Banner

  "There is an immediacy to her narrative, combined with images that startle our senses, that leave us haunted." -– San Francisco Chronicle