If I Had Your Face

Resumen del libro

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 with a client threatens 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 heir to one of the country's biggest conglomerates.

Down the hall in their building lives Ara, a hair stylist 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 a brutal economic reality.

Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universaltheir tentative friendships perhaps these women's only saving grace.

Biografía del autor

span span style='font-size:13.3333px;' strong Frances Cha /strong ha sido editora de viajes y cultura para la CNN en Seúl. Creció entre Estados Unidos, Hong Kong y Corea del Sur. Se graduó en la Universidad de Darthmouth y posee un máster en escritura de la Universidad de Columbia. Entre otros, ha escrito para em The Atlantic /em , em The Believer /em y la agencia de noticias Yonhap. También ha dado clases en la Universidad de Columbia, la Universidad Femenina Ewha, la Universidad Nacional de Seúl y la Universidad Yonsei. Ahora vive en Brooklyn. /span /span span span style='font-size:13.3333px;' <br> /span /span span span style='font-size:13.3333px;' Web: FrancesCha.com /span /span span span style='font-size:13.3333px;' <br> /span /span span span style='font-size:13.3333px;' X: Frances H Cha /span /span span <br> <br> /span p <br><br> /span