If I Had Your Face A Novel

Description: A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul Korea about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty after - hours room salons catering to wealthy men ruthless social hierarchies and K - pop mania Powerful and provocative a novel about female strength spirit resilience and the solace that friendship can sometimes provide. The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST Books OF THE YEAR: Time NPR Esquire Bustle BBC New York Post In Style Kyuri is an achingly beautiful woman with a hard - won job at a Seoul room salon an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold clear - eyed approach to life an impulsive mistake threatens her livelihood. Kyuri's 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 heir to one of the country's biggest conglomerates. Down the hall in their building lives Ara a hairstylist whose two preoccupations sustain her: an obsession with a boy - band pop star and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that she hopes will change her life. And Wonna one floor below is a newlywed trying to have a baby that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise in Korea's brutal economy. Together their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.
Title: If I Had Your Face A Novel
Barcode: 9780593129487
Publication Date: 4/13/2021