Snakes and Earrings

Hitomi Kanehara · 2003 CE · Novel · Japanese · Contemporary

Nineteen-year-old Lui, adrift in Tokyo, is fascinated by a punk acquaintance with a forked tongue and begins to stretch her own tongue piercing while taking up with him and a tattooist. Pain becomes the one thing she can feel precisely. Kanehara won the Akutagawa Prize at twenty, and the book sold over a million copies.

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