Tras años de vida en la calle y abandonar la escuela, Hitomi Kanehara comenzó a escribir. Sus novelas, aclamadas en Japón, se caracterizan por una honestidad cruda y una mirada penetrante a la psique humana. Kanehara explora frecuentemente temas de identidad, deseo y la búsqueda de sentido en el mundo moderno. Su estilo distintivo, que combina urgencia con belleza lírica, sumerge a los lectores en las profundidades de la experiencia humana.
Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara's sensational novel, Autofiction, follows Rin's life backwards through time from this moment so that we see her when she is eighteen, sixteen and finally fifteen, and a picture of the dark heart and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually develops.
An edgy and electrifying literary sensation that took Japan by storm, "Snakes and Earrings" is the riveting story of a young girl's descent through the dark and disturbing underbelly of Tokyo.