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Title: Bardo99 by Cecile Pineda ISBN: 0-930324-83-8 Publisher: Wings Press (ME) Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful and disturbing
Comment: The writing is of such quality and passion that I had to give 5 stars and yet I can't say I enjoyed reading it. It begins as a Kafaesque tale of a functionary in a totalitarian country conscripted to deal with a nuclear or biological disaster. It becomes more dreamlike. The protagonist constantly finds himself in bleak or claustrophobic setting surrounded by callous authorities. Cruelties seem to be going on all around him but he cannot be sure what they are and is helpless to stop them. Bardo is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The cover says "What if the 20th century lived as a character and what if that character dying passed though a Bardo state." (Didn't anyone ever have any fun in the twentieth century). The back cover refers to "the massive coronary that ends his own life." More clarification would have been welcome. Some predictable liberal targets are hit. Can we equate My Lai (halted by a brave American airman, reported in American newspapers and punished by an American court) with Babi Yar? Yes there are parellels but they need rational discussion not fictional polemics. This is very different from Love Queen of the Amazon (understatement of the year) but even that showed a pessimistic view of human nature and a delight in puzzling the reader. Pineda still seems want experiment and intrigue. I hope she will condescend to entertain and explain.