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Real world / Natsuo Kirino ; translated by Philip Gabriel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307267573 (hc)
- Physical Description: 208 p.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Borzoi book." Translation of: Riaru wārudo. |
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- Baker & Taylor
In a crowded suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls--Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan, and Kirarin--becomes suspicious of a neighbor's teenage son when his father is found brutally murdered and the young man disappears, taking Toshi's bicycle and cell phone, unaware that all four of them will become caught up in the peril surrounding the crime. 30,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls become suspicious of a neighbor's teenage son when his father is found brutally murdered and the young man disappears, unaware that all four of them will become caught up in the crime. - Blackwell North Amer
In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless "cram school" sessions meant to ensure entry into good colleges. There's Toshi, the dependable one; Terauchi, the great student; Yuzan, the sad one, grieving over the death of her mother - and trying to hide her sexual orientation from her friends; and Kirarin, the sweet one, whose late nights and reckless behavior remain a secret from those around her When Toshi's next-door neighbor is found brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son, a high school boy they nickname Worm. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers - dangers they never could have even imagined - that rises from within them as well as from the world around them.
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. - Random House, Inc.
A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.
In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless âcram schoolâ sessions meant to ensure entry into good colleges. Thereâs Toshi, the dependable one; Terauchi, the great student; Yuzan, the sad one, grieving over the death of her motherâand trying to hide her sexual orientation from her friends; and Kirarin, the sweet one, whose late nights and reckless behavior remain a secret from those around her. When Toshiâs next-door neighbor is found brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighborâs son, a high school boy they nickname Worm. But when he flees, taking Toshiâs bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangersâdangers they never could have even imaginedâthat rises from within them as well as from the world around them.
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.
