Hitomi Kanehara

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.

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.

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.

VINTAGE CLASSICS WEIRD GIRLS Dive into the depraved delectable depths of women s weird fiction Rin is flying back from her honeymoon She s madly in love with her husband Shin and the future looks rosy Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping 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 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 core and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually develops The VINTAGE CLASSICS WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbed and disturbing protagonists who dare to defy the norm Bold deviant chilling and enchanting these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in

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 bifida y sus tatoos. En seguida se muda a su casa y empieza a imitarle en el camino de la modificacion corporal, haciendose un piercing en la lengua con la intencion de acabar partiendola en dos y soñando con decorar su espalda con un enorme tatuaje.Serpiertes y piercings es breve e intensa como un latigazo, y dejara una profunda y duradera impresion en el lector mas endurecido.