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Beauty standards and class struggles in Seoul.

Recommended for those interested in contemporary Korean culture. Follow the lives of four young women navigating the beauty industry, love, and social hierarchy in modern-day Seoul. The novel provides a unique perspective on the cultural and economic challenges faced by young women in Korea's rapidly changing society.

  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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If I Had Your Face

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ISBN: 9780593158449
Authors: Frances Cha
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date of Publication: 2020-04-21
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Feminism
Goodreads rating: 3.75
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A debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret room salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania. "Even as a girl, I knew the only chance I had was to change my face... even before a fortune-teller told me so." Kyuri is a beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a "room salon," an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the super-wealthy heir to one of Korea's biggest companies. Down the hall in their apartment building lives Ara, a hair stylist for whom two preoccupations sustain her: obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that is commonplace. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to get pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise and educate in the cutthroat economy. Together, their stories tell a tale that's
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Beauty standards and class struggles in Seoul.

Recommended for those interested in contemporary Korean culture. Follow the lives of four young women navigating the beauty industry, love, and social hierarchy in modern-day Seoul. The novel provides a unique perspective on the cultural and economic challenges faced by young women in Korea's rapidly changing society.

  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.