Gripping Curtis Sittenfeld * Electrifying Taylor Jenkins Reid * Remarkable Kevin Kwan * Stunning Sunday Times * Brilliant Pandora Sykes
In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razors edge:
Kyuri, a beautiful room salon girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours.
Miho, an artist whose life becomes enmeshed with the offspring of the super-wealthy elite.
Ara, a hairstylist whose obsession with a K-pop star leads her to violent extremes.
Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she cant afford.
Set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of Seoul, If
In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razors edge:
Kyuri, a beautiful room salon girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours.
Miho, an artist whose life becomes enmeshed with the offspring of the super-wealthy elite.
Ara, a hairstylist whose obsession with a K-pop star leads her to violent extremes.
Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she cant afford.
Set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of Seoul, If
If I Had Your Face
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In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razors edge:
Kyuri, a beautiful room salon girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours.
Miho, an artist whose life becomes enmeshed with the offspring of the super-wealthy elite.
Ara, a hairstylist whose obsession with a K-pop star leads her to violent extremes.
Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she cant afford.
Set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of Seoul, If I Had Your Face is an electrifying debut novel about female strength, resilience and the solace that friendship can provide.
Chas writing always crackles . . . Touching, compelling and icily cool Observer
Fascinating, eye-opening, compelling - like the film Parasite, If I Had Your Face is also an expose of the class system in South Korea Independent
Absolutely stunning. . . Assured, bold, and electrifying Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and MALIBU RISING
One of the buzziest debuts of the year, If I Had Your Face transports readers to glittering, futuristic Seoul... Essential reading Vogue
Culturally fascinating, emotionally layered, gripping and smart Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of PREP and AMERICAN WIFE
Glittering, engrossing Helen Oyeyemi, author of GINGERBREAD
Remarkable, brilliantly crafted and devastatingly exquisite Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of CRAZY RICH ASIANS
- Тип обложки Мягкий переплёт
- Количество страниц 274
- Вес, г 209
- Размер 1.7x12.6x19.7
- Год издания 2020
- ISBN 978-0-24-198635-6, 978-0-241-98635-6
- ID товара 2872474
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Книга на английском языке подойдет для читателей, владеющих английским языком на продвинутом уровне. Роман читается легко, на одном дыхании, стиль письма автора затягивает.
Книга на английском языке подойдет для читателей, владеющих английским языком на продвинутом уровне. Роман читается легко, на одном дыхании, стиль письма автора затягивает.
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