光の帝国 常野物語

Tokono Monogatari

by Riku Onda

(集英社文庫)

Genres: Japanese Literature

248 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Riku Onda (Japanese name: 恩田 陸), born in 1964, is the professional name of Nanae Kumagai. She has been writing fiction since 1991 and has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. The Aosawa Murders was her first crime novel and the first time she was translated into English. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2020.

Reviews

[Mizuki]

DNF at around page 50. This book bores me to tear and you would have thought a story about people with superhuman power must be exciting.

Not gonna touch any more book from the same series.

[Angel 一匹狼]

I actually liked the first two stories but then becomes something akin to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, with all the stories talking about the same characters, and things start to become more and more boring, more and more pointless.

4/10

(Japanese; original)