num_pages: 121
description: Running away from home into an unfettered new existence within Japan's underground youth culture, eighteen-year-old Liu befriends the seductive, body-pierced Ama and mysterious tattoo artist Shiba, friends whose increasingly reckless behavior forces Liu to make difficult choices.
language: English
title: Snakes And Earrings
titlecomplete: Snakes And Earrings
genres: Asian Literature, Japan, Asia, Young Adult, Novels, Japanese Literature, Romance, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 5084
places: Japan
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞
publisher: Plume