Honeybees and Distant Thunder: The million copy award-winning Japanese bestseller about the enduring power of great friendship

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Przyznam, że nieco mnie śmieszyły już w pewnym momencie, bo były bardzo pretensjonalne, ale ponownie - nie znam się na tym, może to wybrzmiewa naturalnie dla kogoś, kto się muzyką zajmuje. While moving smoothly among multiple points of view, Onda concentrates on four of the more unusual contestants. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.

By bringing these diverse members together and pitting them against each other in a potentially make-or-break event, she manages to compose a harmony between these surprisingly complementary characters. Honeybees and Distant Thunder is a million-copy bestseller in Japan and is finally being translated into English now by Philip Gabriel (esteemed Murakami translator), and is published early next month in May. Driven young people face off at a prestigious Japanese piano competition in this propulsive and poetic novel. It is a work that I believe will offer something new upon each new reading, and it's certainly one I will be keeping on my shelves. From the start, I got caught up in the characters and events, and it was clear from the information provided in the prose that the author is well versed in music herself.Tender, cruel, compelling,Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry. Mało jestem w stanie więcej powiedzieć, bo nie rozumiem muzyki klasycznej i tych mistycznych przeżyć bohaterów. Honeybees and Distant Thunder is Onda’s third book to be translated into English, this time with Haruki Murakami veteran Philip Gabriel taking the reins. The narrator, soon established as Elliot Chase, then zooms out to address the reader directly, introducing the players—most importantly movie star Lana Farrar.

Or will it be child of nature, Jin, a pianist without a piano, who carries the sound of his father's bees wherever he goes?Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry as three young people come to understand what it means to truly be a friend. Jin unnerves everyone from the get-go because he acts like he’s doing whatever he wants, but he ends up doing just that. Thank you to Simon and Schuster for the advanced reader copy of the English translation of this book - being released in May. They don’t even own a piano, but as it turns out, Jin was mentored by a beloved piano master who recently passed away. While I first found myself confused with the constant page-to-page shifting of POVs, I grew to appreciate the way it communicated how every member of the audience and the performer was experiencing the music together, transcending their individual sensory experiences.