Real World
  • Published: 2 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781448103881
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Real World

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2 Aug 2018
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3 Nov 2008
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Psychologically intricate and astute, dark and unflinching, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.

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 as well as the world around them.
  • Published: 2 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781448103881
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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About the author

Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, quickly established a reputation in Japan as one of a rare breed of crime writer whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her winning not only Japan's top mystery award, for Out, but two of its major literary awards, the Naoki Prize and the Tanizaki Prize. Her novels available in English are Out, Grotesque, Real World and In.

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Praise for Real World

Japanese crime queen ... a tense, worried book of actions and consequences

Guardian

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

Kirino uses her considerable narrative gifts to evoke the tedium, pressure and angst her teenage characters suffer

Publishers Weekly

She may be the best crime writer to emerge from Japan in years

Independent on Sunday

The translation is smooth and invisible... Compelling

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