Author Hitomi Kanehara Reveals New Life After Divorce in Her 40s... "My Vision Has Become as Bright as 4K"
New Essay Collection Sparks Attention... Ending a 20-Year Marriage and 'Standing Alone'
"Balancing Parenting and Writing Was a War. . . I Had to Write Even When I Was Exhausted" In 2003, at the age of twenty, the 'genius author' Hitomi Kanehara (42), who burst onto the Japanese literary scene with her novel 'Piercing for the Snake', declared a new freedom as she entered her 40s.