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The Aosawa Murders
''The Aosawa Murders'' is the first crime novel written by Riku Onda and was published in Japan in 2005. Bitter Lemon Press later published an English translation in 2020. The novel focuses on a 1973 mass poisoning case set in seaside city K—. At a birthday celebration for the influential Aosawa family, seventeen people died from cyanide poisoning, poisoning after drinking sake and soft drinks. Onda's writing style is classified as ''shin honkaku,'' a "new orthodox" form of Japanese detective fiction, and is structured to focus on three converging timelines. Onda drew inspiration for the novel after listening to Michel Petrucciani's song ''Eugenia''. It also references the Sadamichi Hirasawa, Teigin Incident, a real case of mass cyanide poisoning in Japan that occurred in 1948. The reception of the novel was well received, landing on top 100 notable books of 2020 by ''The New York Times Best Seller list, The New York Times''. She won the Best Novel for Mystery Writers of Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riku Onda
, known by her pen name , is a Japanese writer. Onda has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. Early life and education Nanae Kumagai was born in 1964 in Aomori, Japan but raised in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. She graduated from Waseda University in 1987 and worked in an office for several years, then quit her job to try writing a novel after reading Ken'ichi Sakemi's 1991 novel '. Career Onda made her literary debut in 1992 with the novel ', which was adapted into the 2000 NHK show ' starring Anne Suzuki and Chiaki Kuriyama. More novels and adaptations followed, including the 1999 novel ', which was adapted into a 2002 film, and the 2000 novel ', which was adapted into a 2001 TBS television series starring Tsubasa Imai. In 2005 Onda won the 26th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
