Winning two major awards, the Naoki Prize for 2016 and the Booksellers’ Award for 2017, this book has been very popular in Japan. I don’t live in Japan but get a sense of popularity based on rankings from Bookmeter.com. I decided to read this book because I knew I liked Onda Riku’s writing style from … Continue reading Bilingual Review: Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Onda Riku (蜜蜂と遠雷　恩田 陸）