num_pages: 120
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 (Originally published in Japan as Hebi ni Piasu)
genres: Fiction, Asia, Japan, Young Adult, Japanese Literature, Romance, Asian Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literature
ratings_count: 5085
places: Japan
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞
publisher: Dutton / Penguin Group (USA)