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If I Had Your Face: “We do not live for tomorrow.”

Have the fullest extent to life the sentence said, however, the novel  If I Had Your Face  had totally defined it in a different way.  If I Had Your Face  is the first novel written by Frances Cha, who grew up in the United States, Hong Kong and South Korea. The book is set in contemporary Seoul and revealed lots of social problems through the eyes of four girls,  Ara ,  Kyuri ,  Woona  and Miho. The four characters each has their own different settings, showcased through their different hardships and experiences faced while involving in different jobs and roles. I believed and would like to conclude that the unbearable trauma they had undergone in their pasts and present days, revolves around the main theme of the book: the huge disparity between the rich and poor. Nevertheless, there are also various other issues faced by the four characters.   At first glance,  Ara , a stylist who is obsessed with K-Pop boy groups, would not stand out as someone involved in juvenile violence when sh