Honeybees and Distant Thunder -- Riku Onda - Hardcover
Author: Riku Onda
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781639364039
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2023 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2023
Foreword 04/27/2023
About the Author
Riku Onda is a No.1 bestselling author in Japan. She grew up in Sendai and attended Waseda University, where she played the alto saxophone. In 1991, Onda won an award with her first novel, and became a full-time writer. In 2003 she moved to South America, where she reported for NHK television on Mayan and Incan culture. As her father was a music enthusiast, Onda grew up listening to classical music and played the piano from an early age, before discovering Western rock and jazz. Honeybees and Distant Thunder was the most celebrated novel of the year when it first published in Japan, winning two major literary awards: the Japan Booksellers Prize and the Naoki Prize (no other novel has won both in the same year). In 2019, it was made into a major Japanese film.