Snakes & Earrings
By: Hitomi Kanehara
Silvian Karu
About the book
Published in Japan ("Hebi ni piasu") in 2004
David James Karashima translated it to English
and in 2005 the book was realased in GB
Was an instant bestseller and sold over a million
copies when it first came out
In 2007 Yukio Ninagawa directed the film-version
Characters
Lui Nakazawa 19-year old Barbie-girl
Amada Kazunori (18) Ama for short. Heavily
pierced and tattooed punk
Kizuki Shiabata a.k.a Shiba-San 24 years old
tattoo-artist, who owns a punk/alternative store
called Desire. Has sadistic and bisexual bents
Plot
Lui is beautiful, bored and listless. Wandering
around the streets of Tokyo at night, she gets
invited by a foreigner to step into a club where she
meets Ama, who shows her his forked tongue.
Finding herself weirdly fascinated with the idea of
having a serpentine tongue, Lui spends the night
with Ama and immediately moves in with him