Face (Contemporary American fiction)
Publisher: Penguin USA
Publication year: 1986
ISBN: 014007600X
Description:
Amid the extreme poverty of Rio de Janeiro's Whale Back slum, Helio Cara has a terrible accident which leaves his face scarred beyond recognition. Lacking a face, he lacks identity. Based on a real incident, Cecile Pineda's stunning novel observes Cara as he struggles with a cruelly insensitive medical system until he decides to surgically create a new face himself -- and a new identity. Book jacket.
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