# Real World

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- Book: [Real World](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsuo-kirino/real-world) ([Real World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsuo-kirino/real-world.md))
- Authors: [Natsuo Kirino](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsuo-kirino)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-319-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2008-09-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.