If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Frances Cha is the author of the novel If I Had Your Face, which was named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time Magazine, NPR, BBC and Esquire among other publications and is being translated into 12 languages.

 

Born in Minnesota, she moved to Texas at age 4, Hong Kong at age 8 and South Korea at age 11. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she received a Dean’s Fellowship. She worked as the assistant managing editor of Samsung Economic Research Institute’s business journal in Seoul, and as a travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong. She has taught media studies at Ewha Womens University and creative writing at Yonsei University.

 

She currently teaches fiction in the MFA program at Columbia University.

 

She divides her time between New York and Seoul.

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 SIX

Culturally fascinating, emotionally layered, gripping and smart
Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of PREP and AMERICAN WIFE

If 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 exquisite
Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of CRAZY RICH ASIANS

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 GINGERBREAD

If 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'

Format: Paperback / softback 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241986356
Published: 24 Jun 2021
Weight: 206g
Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 22 (mm)