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Of metal and wishes

by Sarah Fine

FictionLoveGhostsMeat industry and tradePrejudicesSocial classesTeenage girlsJuvenile fiction

In this loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, a ghost becomes obsessed with sixteen-year-old Wen, the daughter of a staff doctor in a slaughterhouse, who falls in love with one of the Noor, a despised group of men, racially different, hired as cheap factory labor.

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Book data: Open Library