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. T
Real World
β Scribed by Kirino, Natsuo
- Book ID
- 107252566
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Astunning new work of feminist noir, the genre Natsuo Kirino has defined and made her own in Out and Grotesque. In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls wade indifferently through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her next-door neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the neighborΠ²Πβ’s son. And when he flees, taking ToshiΠ²Πβ’s bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Career military man Dan returns to Austin and connects instantly with Wheldon. But the last thing Dan wants is a relationship with a bisexual manβone with five kids.
"In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phon