Description
In a Tokyo suburb where routine feels suffocating, four teenage girls stumble upon a neighbor’s brutal murder—and with it, the sudden collapse of the lives they thought they understood. Pulled into a dangerous cover-up involving a boy known only as “Worm,” they must navigate fear, loyalty, and the moral compromises that begin to feel like survival. As adolescence curdles into guilt and complicity, the novel exposes the dark underbelly of community life, where silence can be as lethal as violence. With Natsuo Kirino’s sharp, unsentimental intensity and psychologically driven storytelling, this is a tense exploration of alienation, the fragility of innocence, and how ordinary people can be pushed—step by step—into irreversible choices.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 9780099523192
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Details
First Published
2004
Language
eng
Translation
From: jpn
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Real World by Natsuo Kirino.