Click on the picture to be directed to the article. It is in ‘Beauty Belt’, rightly so as it is well known for its cosmetic surgeries.
‘If I Had Your Face’ is a shocking and heartbreaking novel about beauty, patriarchy, sexism, class, filial piety and friendship in a country known for its K-dramas, boyband fandoms, and fried chicken and soju, with characters so intricately drawn, you can’t help but to empathize with them and hold them dear to your heart.Īn interesting article on ‘Gangnam District’ that and was mentioned in the novel. I wasn’t expecting it to have such a lasting impression on me. Each story is told from their perspective, except Sujin, whose story we’ll know from the girls, except Wonna.
Miho and Sujin were raised in an orphanage in Cheongju. In Seoul, South Korea, we meet 5 women – Kyuri, a room salon girl Miho, an emerging artist Ara a hairstylist, Wonna, a pregnant lady in her forties, and Sujin, Ara’s former high school friend. I would live your life so much better than you if I had your face.” Kyuri,’If I Had Your Face’ by Frances Cha You have so much and you can do anything you want.
Stop running around like a fool, I wanted to stay. “I wanted to reach over and shake her by the shoulders. My verdict: A shocking and heartbreaking novel about beauty, patriarchy, sexism, class, filial piety and friendship with intricately drawn characters, making this an unforgettable debut! 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. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the heir to one of the country’s biggest conglomerates.ĭown 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.Īnd 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. Kyuri’s roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake threatens her livelihood. 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. If I Had Your Face marks the entrance of a bright new voice in fiction.”-Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six Title/Author: If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
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