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Real World
Natsuo Kirino
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Description for Real World
Paperback. In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four girls drift through tedious summer school classes. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son. They become drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her.
Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523192
SKU
V9780099523192
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99-99
About Natsuo Kirino
Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, is the author of sixteen novels, four short-story collections, and an essay collection. She is the recipient of six of Japan's premier literary awards, including the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Out, and the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature for Grotesque. Her work has been translated into nineteen languages, and several of her books ... Read more
Reviews for Real World
Kirino uses her considerable narrative gifts to evoke the tedium, pressure and angst her teenage characters suffer
Publishers Weekly
Kirino creates a fictional universe in which the normal rules of engagement no longer apply...she chronicles the toxic fall out of an educational system that fosters conformity above individualism
Emma Hagestadt
Independent
Japanese crime queen ... ... Read more
Publishers Weekly
Kirino creates a fictional universe in which the normal rules of engagement no longer apply...she chronicles the toxic fall out of an educational system that fosters conformity above individualism
Emma Hagestadt
Independent
Japanese crime queen ... ... Read more