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Hitomi Kanehara (金原 ひとみ, Kanehara Hitomi, born August 8, 1983) is a Japanese novelist. Her novel Hebi ni piasu (Snakes and Earrings) won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and sold over a million copies in Japan. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide.
Kanehara Hitomi (born Aug. 8, 1983, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese novelist whose darkly explicit prose addresses the experience of being young in contemporary Japan. Kanehara temporarily stopped going to elementary school, and as a teenager she attempted suicide by cutting her wrists.
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.
Snakes and Earrings (蛇にピアス, Hebi ni Piasu) is a Japanese novel by Hitomi Kanehara. The story follows Lui, a young woman in Tokyo whose fascination with body modification and sadomasochistic sexual activity drives her to make increasingly dangerous personal choices.
English. 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.
Hitomi Kanehara has 13 books on Goodreads with 21815 ratings. Hitomi Kanehara’s most popular book is Snakes And Earrings.
This chapter traces the life of author Kanehara Hitomi, whose Akutagawa Prize–winning Snakes and Earrings (2003) remains the author’s primary claim to fame. In the wake of her sudden success, and due in no small part to her bold taste in fashion, Kanehara was quickly branded a diva in the media.
