Hitomi Kanehara

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 under

Esta novela sobre el sexo y la soledad está narrada por Lui, una muy joven y extraña mujer japonesa que se embarca en una desastrosa relación con dos hombres peligrosos. Lui se siente atraída por el dolor y, al conocer en un bar a Ama, queda inmediatamente fascinada por su lengua bífida y sus tatoos. En seguida se muda a su casa y empieza a imitarle en el camino de la modificación corporal, haciéndose un piercing en la lengua con la intención de acabar partiéndola en dos y soñando con decorar su espalda con un enorme tatuaje.Serpiertes y piercings es breve e intensa como un latigazo, y dejará una profunda y duradera impresión en el lector más endurecido.

Rin is twenty-two, with a troubled adolescence behind her. She is flying back from her honeymoon, madly in love with her husband. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom and she starts to imagine that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out of control the phrase 'madly in love' takes on a more sinister meaning.

Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700's, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes and ribbons, as people of her class do for food and warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant and almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll - a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Doll, selling her body to all manner of 'cullies', dressed whorishly in colorful, gaudy dresses with a painted red smile.Faced with bad debts and threats upon her life she eventually flees to Monmouth, her mother's hometown, where she attempts to start a new life as a maid in Mrs Jones's house. But Mary soon discovers that she can't escape her past and just how dearly people like her pay for yearnings not fitting to their class in society.