Real World by Kirino, Natsuo

Real World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307387486)

Vendor: Natsuo Kirino
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$16.95
$16.95
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Real World by Kirino, Natsuo

Real World

$16.95
Real World by Kirino, Natsuo

Real World

$16.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
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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.

Author: Natsuo Kirino
ISBN-10: 0307387488
ISBN-13: 9780307387486
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2009
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.66d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 126298 / Real World


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/16/2009 pg. 20
By Natsuo Kirino
By Natsuo Kirino
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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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