Publisher's Synopsis
"One stele stands slightly at a distance near a tree. She approaches the monument almost fearfully, without reason. Why isn't it in the circle? The figure carved in the stone is also wearing a crown-like headdress. A kind of belt hanging down to his feet. His arms are bare, folded over his chest with huge bracelets that partially hide his hands holding a wreath of leaves that surrounds... Katherine only just remarking... the absence of his face, a hollow oval space, a large empty shell. Was this how the sculptor had conceived it, was he waiting for the death of a sovereign to represent his successor, was it meant to erase all trace of a tyrant in an uprising, or simply the wear and tear of time? But time would have erased the entire sculpture, not just the face. Katherine saw multiple images turning before her eyes like a disturbing kaleidoscope: the clay masks at the Academy of Art, Willy's reconstructed face, Ricardo, Don Arturo, her own face before getting her hair colored, the faces of her parents, of Santiago, Richard, Tony, and then... and then the statue moved forward, touching her shoulder. The images shattered, she felt a great burning sensation and fainted."
Participating in the facial reconstitution project at the New York Academy of Art, leads one of the students, Katherine, on a quest that will take her on a dangerous journey.
