蜜蜂と遠雷
By: Onda Riku
Publisher: Gentōsha
Published: 2016
Language: jpn
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9784344030039
Subjects: International Competition; Pianists; Music; Fiction
Other titles: Mitsubachi to enrai
Description: A boy of sixteen who lives with his beekeeper father and moved too frequently to have a piano at home, a young woman of twenty who hasn't been able to play since her mother's sudden death when she was thirteen, a music school graduate turned salaryman who is barely under the age limit at 28, a 19-year-old Juilliard student whose musicality and perfect technique make him the favorite to win...these and other geniuses gather for the Yoshigae International Piano Competition in this novel about talent, destiny, and struggling against oneself.
Notes: In Japanese.

Dai 156-kai Naoki Sanjūgoshō jushōsaku

156th Naoki Prize, 2016; Booksellers Award 1st Place, 2017

Dai 10-satsu, 2017.