Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara, translated by David Karashima [in AsianWeek]
04 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
If this 120-page novel rife with sex and violence were any longer, reading it would be unbearable. That it won Japan’s highest literary honor, the Akutagawa Prize, for its then 20-year-old author,...