Po rokoch života na ulici a predčasnom ukončení štúdia sa Hitomi Kanehara pustila do písania. Jej romány, ocenené v Japonsku, sa vyznačujú surovou úprimnosťou a prenikavým pohľadom na ľudskú psychiku. Kanehara často skúma témy identity, túžby a hľadania zmyslu v modernom svete. Jej jedinečný štýl, ktorý kombinuje naliehavosť s lyrickou krásou, vtiahne čitateľov do hlbín ľudskej skúsenosti.
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.