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The Mask of True Faces

The Mask of True Faces

Han, Jack

Paperback

General World History

Publisher Price: $18.16

ISBN13: 9798347415021
Publisher: Blurb
Published: Jan 29 2026
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.08
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the valley of Chogapsan, where children once entered the world laughing, a strange mist descends from the northern cliffs. It smells of memory burned to ash. One by one, the children forget who they are. A boy bleats like a goat. A girl perches on rooftops, believing she is a sparrow. Twins growl and bite, having abandoned language altogether. The demon Chameon-the Face-Thief-walks through the fog wearing a thousand stolen faces, turning mirrors into instruments of confusion. When even the world itself begins to forget its shape, the village shaman Mother Goh knows what must be done. She gives a quiet boy named Miran a cracked festival mask and sends him into the Valley of No Faces with a single instruction: Dance until the demon remembers it has none. What follows is a journey into the heart of forgetting-and a confrontation with the question that haunts every human soul: Who am I when I can no longer remember my own face? A forgotten Korean folk legend that speaks urgently to our age of confusion, identity crisis, and lost moorings. This is a story about masks and mirrors, beasts and humans, the terror of forgetting and the sacred dance of remembering. Truth hides best in laughter.

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