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A masterful and haunting achievement by one of Japan's most powerful writers
Psychologically intricate and astute, dark and unflinchingly, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait ...
Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, quickly established a reputation in Japan as one of a rare breed of crime writer whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her winning not only Japan's top mystery award, for Out, but one of its major literary awards, the Naoki Prize, for Soft Cheeks, followed by the Tanizaki Prize for Tokyo Island. Several of her books have also been turned into movies.
A masterpiece of genre from the queen of Japanese crime. A vintage Original.
Psychologically intricate and astute, dark and unflinchingly, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.