Riku Onda

Aug 20, 2024 | womensprize.com | Jungeun Yun |Riku Onda |Mizuki Tsujimura |Lynsey Passmore

This Women in Translation month we’ve teamed up with our friends at Doubleday, home to bestselling translated fiction including Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura and What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, and one of their translators, Shanna Tan, to share some thoughts on one of the biggest trends in translated fiction: healing fiction. The Power of Healing FictionWritten by Shanna TanHealing fiction, to me, is a safe space.

May 4, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Riku Onda |Colleen Hoover

by Riku Onda ; translated by Philip Gabriel ‧ Driven young people face off at a prestigious Japanese piano competition in this propulsive and poetic novel. While moving smoothly among multiple points of view, Onda concentrates on four of the more unusual contestants. Aya Eiden, now 20, was an up-and-coming pianist when her mother died seven years earlier and hasn't played professionally since.

May 4, 2023 | chicklit.nl | Riku Onda

De twintigjarige Aya Aiden, Akashi Takashima van achtentwintig en Jin Kazama, die pas zestien jaar oud is, strijden met tientallen andere veelbelovende talenten in een prestigieus pianoconcours. De spanning, twijfels en concurrentie vergt het uiterste van hen. Ze spelen op hun toppen van hun kunnen maar als ze vriendschap met elkaar sluiten en naar elkaars muziekstukken luisteren blijken ze tot meer in staat dan ze voor mogelijk konden houden.