Real World

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A01=Natsuo Kirino
about grief
Author_Natsuo Kirino
behavioural conflict
Category=FBA
coming of age
contemporary
crime fiction
crime novel
crime thriller
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family secrets
grotesque
horror
japanese culture
life of crime
murder mystery
mystery
mystery thriller
psychological thriller
reckless conduct
secret life
seduction
strong female protagonist
summer schooled
suspense
sweet brutality
teenage girls
the thriving adolescent
theft is property
thriller
tokyo
vanished
violence

Product details

  • ISBN 9780099523192
  • Weight: 197g
  • Dimensions: 136 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Sep 2008
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.

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 have been turned into movies. Out was the first of her novels to appear in English and was nominated for an Edgar Award. She lives in Tokyo.