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If I Had Your Face

內容簡介

內容簡介 幾名同住在首爾小公寓的女子，有著不同的生長背景、職場遭遇、夢想挫敗：在夜店陪酒已支付家人醫藥費，卻不幸對客人動感情的Kiyuri；借錢整型、看似愛慕虛榮其實一心想照顧弱勢好友的Sujin；和Sujin一起長大卻失聲的美髮師Ara；用才華打進富人圈成功脫貧、卻被富豪男友劈腿的雕塑家Miho；費盡心思嫁給父母雙亡的科技新貴、好不容易懷孕老公卻被資遣的Wonna....作者為美國韓裔CNN記者，出書揭露南韓不為人知的貧富差距與性別歧視殘酷現狀。A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, secret room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania.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 universal-their tentative friendships perhaps these women's only saving grace.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Frances Cha is a former travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul. She grew up in the United States, Hong Kong, and South Korea. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University MFA writing program, she has written for The Atlantic, The Believer, and the Yonhap News Agency, among others, and has lectured at Columbia University, Ewha Womans University, Seoul National University, and Yonsei University. She lives in Brooklyn.

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