Real World

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.

Product details

• Authors: Natsuo Kirino, Kirino Natsuo
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2008
• EAN: 9780099523192
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952319-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 190 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Originals; Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Originals
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Japan, Crime & mystery, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery fiction