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In the underground city of Caverna, the world's most skilled craftsmen create delicacies beyond compare: cheese that can show you the future and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The poeple are unlike any other: they have faces blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and the famous Facesmiths will teach a person to display joy, despair or fear - at a price.Into this dark and distrustful world tumbles Neverfell, a girl with no memory and a face so incredible to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. For Neverfell has a face that shows her emotions. A face incapable of lying. A face that is a dangerous threat and an irrestible treasure - a face that some would kill for...
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A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- A Face Like Glass
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Frances Hardinge
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN13
- 9780330519700
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Mystery Novels, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Dystopia, Steampunk
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- In the underground city of Caverna, the world's most skilled craftsmen create delicacies beyond compare: cheese that can show you the future and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The poeple are unlike any other: they have faces blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and the famous Facesmiths will teach a person to display joy, despair or fear - at a price.Into this dark and distrustful world tumbles Neverfell, a girl with no memory and a face so incredible to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. For Neverfell has a face that shows her emotions. A face incapable of lying. A face that is a dangerous threat and an irrestible treasure - a face that some would kill for...