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Real World
By Natsuo KirinoPublisher Description
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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“I had high hopes for this book, because I absolutely loved her novel Out. I have not read Grotesque yet, because it is not available at my library :(
I enjoy the timeline structure and how each chapter jumps between characters, as it did in Out. The storyline and character development of Real World seemed flimsy by comparison. The dialogue and narration felt as though a teenager was actually writing it. I had mixed feelings about this aspect, because it did reinforce the first person narration coming from a teen character, but at what cost? Everything came across quite bland, using stereotypical models for teenagers (the bubbly one, the sexually questioning one, the smart tortured one, and the "normal" one).
It got me thinking about how my friends and I would have reacted to this situation in high school though. Probably not like these girls did...”
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About Natsuo Kirino
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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