<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When it was first published in 1985, <I>Face</I> 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 <I>Face </I>as a 2013 Neustadt Prize finalist, features a foreword by Nobel Prize&#8211;winning author J. M. Coetzee and a never-before-published interview with the author conducted by Dr. Francisco Lomel&#237;. The novel&#8212;based on an actual event&#8212;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&#8217;s <I>favelas</I> 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&#8212;his neighbor&#8217;s go so far as to burn down his shack&#8212;and flees to the Brazilian interior to live as an outcast in his mother&#8217;s tiny house. Pineda deftly, hauntingly records Helio Cara&#8217;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.