Lui is nineteen years old, beautiful and bored. When she meets Ama in a bar she finds herself mesmerised by his forked tongue and straightaway moves in with him and has her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her boundaries further, she asks Ama's friend Shiba to design an exquisite tattoo for her back. But what Shiba demands as payment for the tattoo leads Lui into a brutal and explicit love triangle like no other. Then, after a violent encounter on the backstreets of Tokyo, Ama vanishes and Lui must face up to her choices...
This prize-winning cult classic was an instant bestseller and sold over a million copies when it was first published in Japan. It is a shockingly gripping tale of pleasure and pain, light and darkness and love and hate.