Books by Cecile Pineda

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.