If I Had Your Face -

Frances Cha

Ballantine Books

2020

234 páginas

7h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780593129463

"Even as a girl, I knew the only chance I had was to change my face... Even before a fortune-teller told me so."
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 roomate, 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 commonplance.
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.

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4 (Muito bom)

Mrs Potato Head!

Quem é que nunca olhou para a coleguinha e pensou "a minha vida seria tão diferente se eu tivesse aquele rosto"?!

Gostei muito da premissa, seguir quatro mulheres com realidades tão diferentes mas com problemas que se encaixam perfeitamente no mesmo quadradinho! A busca pela beleza, pela valorização e aceitação é um mal que a gente é condicionado a carregar.

Adorei que elas vivem no mesmo prédio e como as histórias vão se intercalando. Sinto que aprendi um pouco com cada uma delas, seja com coisas boas ou com erros que eu (com certeza) não gostaria de replicar! Só gostaria que algumas questões fossem mais bem aprofundadas.

No mais eu sinto que esse livro daria uma excelente adaptação audiovisual (kdrama).