Böcker av Cecile Pineda

Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecological thinking, Apology to a Whale addresses what the intersection of relative linguistics and archeology reveals about the present world's power relations, and what the extraordinary communication of plants and animals can teach us. This masterpiece of creative nonfiction is a wild ride on the frontiers of archeo-linguistics in search of the greatest killer on Earth-us.

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

Devil's Tango is a one-woman whirlwind tour of the nuclear industry, seen through the lens of the industrial and planetary crisis unfolding at Fukushima Daiichi. As much personal journal as investigative journalism, the author's journal entries trace her own and the country's evolution of consciousness during the first year following the diaster at Fukushima Daiichi. Pineda keeps track day-by-day of worsening developments at Fukushima Daiichi, and records the daily evolution of her perceptions. Often poetic in tone, philosophic in scope, her reflections are peppered with dramatic monologues,day-to-day reportage, philosophical speculations, meditations, deep song (canto hondo) and occasional flights of fancy, a monoplay, a grand guignol. There is no other book quite like it. John Nichols calls it an "e;astonishing anatomy of he Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster,"e; "e;... a revelation, and a searing denunciation of the worldwide nuclear energy industry."e;

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.

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