If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha - ISBN: 9780241986356
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Seoul’s dark beauty: Obsession, competition, and survival on a razor’s edge.

If I Had Your Face

'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    2 July 2021

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Summary

A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South Korea.

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.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241986356
ISBN-10:0241986354
Author:Frances Cha
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:2 July 2021
Weight:206g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 19mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A brilliant debut

Absolutely stunning … Assured, bold, and electrifying, If I Had Your Face marks the entrance of a bright new voice in fiction – Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIXCulturally fascinating, emotionally layered, gripping and smart – Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of PREP and AMERICAN WIFEIf you loved Crazy Rich Asians or Daisy Jones And The Six then this is going to be right up your street * Grazia *Fascinating, eye-opening, compelling - like the film Parasite, If I Had Your Face is also an exposé of the class system in South Korea * Independent *I stayed up til 4am two nights in a row, absolutely riveted and astonished. Remarkable, brilliantly crafted and devastatingly exquisiteA brilliant debut * The High Low Podcast *Each voice in this quartet cuts through the pages so cleanly and clearly that the overall effect is one of dangerously glittering harmony. The tale told here is as engrossing as a war chant, or a mosaic formed with blades, every piece a memento sharpened on those unyielding barriers between us and our ideal lives. – Helen Oyeyemi, award-winning author of GINGERBREADIf I Had Your Face is hilarious, cuttingly observant, feminist, and all-around delightful. It is hard to write a book about four protagonists and make you care for all of them-yet somehow Cha succeeds. – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Costa-shortlisted author of ‘Starling Days’One of the buzziest debuts of the year, If I Had Your Face transports readers to glittering, futuristic Seoul. Essential reading in what Jia Tolentino memorably called the age of Instagram face. * Vogue *Compelling, understated, casually brutal, and very cynical. I love it. – Hanna Jameson, bestselling author of ‘The Last’

About The Author

Frances Cha

Frances Cha is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia MFA program, and a former travel & culture reporter for CNN in Seoul. She currently lives in New York City with her family.

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