If I had your face : a novel / Frances Cha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cha, Frances, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Korea (South)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Women.

Neighbors--Korea (South)--Fiction.

Neighbors.

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Manners and customs.

Korea (South).

Korea (South)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Women--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]

Summary:

"Kyuri is a heartbreakingly 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 gripping tale that's seemingly unfamiliar, yet unmistakably universal in the way that their tentative friendships may have to be their saving grace."-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Cha, Frances, If i had your face

ISBN:

9780593129463

0593129466

OCLC:

1111378343

Publisher Number:

99984204079