Real World
Jul 2008 · Sold by Vintage
3.8star
16 reviews
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224
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About this ebook
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 phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.
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3.8
16 reviews
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September 20, 2011
A disappointment after reading Out - perhaps the best book I read in 2005. In "Real World," the author goes to great lengths to distinguish the nuances with the 4+1 characters in this novel. However, they all seem to really blend into the same, regardless of the viewpoint.
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January 6, 2015
Blown away by OUT. i found it at a book sale . Had never heard of her before-& couldnt put it down.
Karen Rodriguez
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March 5, 2013
I love this book. I've read it like 4 times and each time I love it more!
About the author
Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, quickly established a reputation in her country as one of a rare breed of mystery writers whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her winning not only the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction in Japan for Out in 1998, but one of its major literary awards--the Naoki Prize--for Soft Cheeks (which has not yet been published in English), in 1999. Several of her books have also been turned into feature movies. Out was the first of her novels to appear in English and was nominated for an Edgar Award. Kirino is also the author of Grotesque.
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