After years of living on the streets and dropping out of school, Hitomi Kanehara began to write. Her novels, which have garnered acclaim in Japan, are marked by a raw honesty and a penetrating look at the human psyche. Kanehara often explores themes of identity, desire, and the search for meaning in the modern world. Her distinctive style, blending urgency with lyrical beauty, draws readers into the depths of human experience.
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.