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
• Assisted by: Philip Gabriel (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.08.2008
• EAN: 9780099526452
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952645-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 177 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Originals; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)