If I had your face / Frances Cha.
Publication details: London : Viking, 2020.Description: 274 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780241396070 (paperback)
- Social conflict -- Korea (South) -- Fiction
- Young women -- Korea (South) -- Seoul -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Korea (South) -- Seoul -- Fiction
- Female friendship
- Young women
- Korea (South) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Korea (South) -- Fiction
- Seoul (Korea) -- Fiction
- Korea (South)
- Korea (South) -- Seoul
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | CHA | Available | 062630 |
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where K-Pop stars are the object of all-consuming obsession, and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move. Navigating this hyper-competitive city are four young women balancing on the razor-edge of survival: Kyuri, an exquisitely beautiful woman whose hard-won status at an exclusive 'room salon' is threatened by an impulsive mistake with a client; her flatmate Miho, an orphan who wins a scholarship to a prestigious art school in New York, where her life becomes tragically enmeshed with the super-wealthy offspring of the Korean elite; Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they will afford to raise in a fiercely competitive economy; and Ara, a hair stylist living down the hall, whose infatuation with a fresh-faced K-Pop star drives her to violent extremes.