Snakes And Earrings
2003
First Published
3.18
Average Rating
126
Number of Pages
Running away from home into an unfettered new existence within Japan's underground youth culture, eighteen-year-old Liu befriends the seductive, body-pierced Ama and mysterious tattoo artist Shiba, friends whose increasingly reckless behavior forces Liu to make difficult choices.
Avg Rating
3.18
Number of Ratings
5,518
5 STARS
15%
4 STARS
24%
3 STARS
34%
2 STARS
19%
1 STARS
9%
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Author
Hitomi Kanehara
Author · 3 books
After dropping out of school and living on the streets for some years, Hitomi Kanehara started to write. Her novels have won several prizes in Japan. The first novel Snakes and Earings won the Akutagawa Prize and the Subaru Prize and it sold a million copies.
