Real World

Notes

Real World by Natsuo Kirino is a warning to pushy parents the world over. A voyage through the heads of four teenage girls and a, presumably insane, teenage boy.

Publisher’s Synopsis

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 next-door neighbour has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbour’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, dark and unflinching, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.

Read a full review of Real World by Natsuo Kirino at Euro Crime