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Snakes and Earrings

By Hitomi Kanehara

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The Prize-Winning Cult Classic and International Bestseller with Over 1 Million Copies Sold

Describing a world as amoral and fascinating as the landscapes of Less Than Zero and Trainspotting, this novel about a young woman living in the violent world of Japan's undergroContinue

The Prize-Winning Cult Classic and International Bestseller with Over 1 Million Copies Sold

Describing a world as amoral and fascinating as the landscapes of Less Than Zero and Trainspotting, this novel about a young woman living in the violent world of Japan's underground youth culture is both shocking and strangely beautiful.

Enchanted by the snakelike forked tongue of a stranger called Ama, nineteen- year-old Lui takes a walk on another side of life. Following Ama home the night she meets him, Lui straightaway moves in with him and begins making plans to have her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her boundaries further, she asks Ama's strange friend Shiba to design an exquisite dragon tattoo for her back. But when Lui and Shiba begin an affair, Ama's jealousy is stirred and the situation becomes explosive. BACKCOVER: “Shocking, brutal, riveting, and best of all, well written.”
—Marie Claire

“As unsettling and poetic as a fever dream.”
—Elle

“A powerful portrait of [the] post-bubble generation.”
—The New York Times

“Ever get the longing to conceal a video camera in a zone you'd never get a peek into otherwise? Hitomi Kanehara fearlessly takes us into the labyrinthine realm that makes up renegade Japanese youth culture.”
—J.T. Leroy, author of Sarah

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  • Bookreporter.com - SNAKES AND EARRINGS by Hitomi Kanehara, translated by David Karashima

    Many of us were taught in English class that the theme of most novels can be understood as either "man against man," "man against nature" or "man against himself." And we are told that by the end of the novel, the main character should experience gro ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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  • Forked thong

    Lui is building a new ethics, a new set of moral values; a new way-of-living. A philosophy in which work is just a way to make beer taste better, love is an act for strangers, violence is a necessity and the skin is just a temporary canvas for ink dragons, studs pierce thongs with the only goal of f ... (continue)

    Lui is building a new ethics, a new set of moral values; a new way-of-living. A philosophy in which work is just a way to make beer taste better, love is an act for strangers, violence is a necessity and the skin is just a temporary canvas for ink dragons, studs pierce thongs with the only goal of forking them; in this way-of-living sex is liberated and therefore intense; so intense it makes you cry, so definite it makes you want to die; and who can tell a lover from a killer nowadays?

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