rtokens: The author said in an interview shortly before his death that his own experiences had lent his books their strong sense of realism . "
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tokens: Granma called " Sleeping Bread " Puig 's " greatest gift to the modern novel in our America . "
ltokens: The titles of his other novels translate as " In the Year of January " ( 1963 ) , " The Collapse " ( 1964 ) , " Sleeping Bread " ( 1975 ) , " The Decaying Mansion " ( 1977 ) and " A World of Things " ( 1982 ) , followed by " The Knot , " " Soul Alone " and , most recently , " A Woman . "