Reviews
My child likes it.
The story was calm, but I didn't find it interesting. I read it because a YouTuber recommended it, but I don't recommend it.
The cello he meets again as an undercover spy, and the life that changes because of it. Tachibana, an employee of the Japan Copyright Federation, is ordered to infiltrate the Mikasa music school, which is facing a lawsuit with the federation, and gather evidence. He is reluctant, but after 12 years he picks up a cello again, and little by little he begins to fall back into the melodies he had forgotten amid his nightmares. The Labuca Trembles. Tachibana is an undercover spy. It is a difficult
Sonata for the Labuca is by Mio Adan, who made her debut after winning the 30th Subaru Novel Newcomer Award. The novel won second place in the Booksellers' Award and received the Miraiya Novel Award and the Haruhiko Oyabu Prize. With so many awards, it is no surprise that the story is engaging and fun. It moves at a brisk pace from the opening and draws you straight through to the ending. It is an appealing book that makes you want to listen to the cello music that brings change to the
Sonata for the Labuca is by Mio Adan, who made her debut after winning the 30th Subaru Novel Newcomer Award. The novel won second place in the Booksellers' Award and received the Miraiya Novel Award and the Haruhiko Oyabu Prize. With so many awards, it is no surprise that the story is engaging and fun. It moves at a brisk pace from the opening and draws you straight through to the ending. It is an appealing book that makes you want to listen to the cello music that brings change to the
I envy people who play instruments well, since I am not good at them. Someone who plays piano seems romantic, while a person who plays a string instrument such as violin, viola, or cello seems to have a refined elegance. I have heard that certain instruments suit certain personalities. That seems true when so many people who play delicate string instruments like the violin, viola, and cello are sensitive and fine-grained. The protagonist of Sonata for the Labuca, Tachibana, also plays cello.
Tachibana is an ordinary office worker who becomes a spy and begins an adventure for his company. But the resolve he had at the start gradually begins to waver. Just thinking about spies makes your heart race. At the center of a quiet legal battle between a music-rights organization and a music school, Tachibana plays an active role. His mission is to infiltrate the school where he once studied cello and find evidence that it is using copyrighted sheet music. He enters the school his boss
The cover showing someone playing cello and the title made me wonder if this was a music novel. Let’s go inside. This spring, Tachibana transferred to the data department of the Japanese Music Copyright Federation, which manages music copyrights in Japan. His boss Shiotsubo calls him downstairs and asks an unexpected question: can he play cello? Tachibana wonders what playing an instrument has to do with work. After the federation announces it will charge large music schools copyright fees,
[Sponsored book review] Sonata for a Frilled Shark, a novel by Adan Mio, translated by Kim Eun-mo. Tachibana, an employee of the Japanese Music Copyright Federation, is ordered to investigate Mikasa Music School undercover. He enrolls in its advanced cello class and will study cello during the two-year assignment. He realizes that something besides fear of the cello has remained inside him. As a child, he was nearly abducted in his neighborhood while learning cello, but escaped thanks to the
Adan Mio: Sonata for Labuka
The first full-length novel by rising author Adan Mio, who established a place in the literary world with just two short story collections. It tells of friendship and personal growth between two men caught in an unprecedented legal dispute between a music copyright federation representing musicians and a major company offering lessons to the public. For this novel, Mio received the Booksellers Award, the Miraiya Literature Award Grand Prize, and the Haruhiko Oyabu Award, and was nominated for other prizes including the Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Award. Even before placing second in the Booksellers Award, it became popular as a book people wanted to read on Japan’s leading platform Reading Meter. People from many fields, including Soma Saito, known as the voice actor for Haikyu!!, recommended it. Special care went into the Korean edition’s cover, as this is the author’s first work introduced in Korea. Artist Noma, who has built a devoted following through a personal channel and exhibitions, depicts the protagonist struggling in the deep sea, making the cover distinctive. Ordinary people need not reach ‘the realm of genius’ to enjoy the benefits music brings; their stories sink into the heart on the melodies of masters from Bach and Dotzauer to Brahms. As one reader review says, ‘I don’t know why I’m crying.’ When you want to forget painful past events and take flight again, open this book.
Korean title: 라부카를 위한 소나타
Korean author: 아단 미오
Korean publisher: 알에이치코리아
ISBN-13: 9788925575087
Reviews
My child likes it.
The story was calm, but I didn't find it interesting. I read it because a YouTuber recommended it, but I don't recommend it.
The cello he meets again as an undercover spy, and the life that changes because of it. Tachibana, an employee of the Japan Copyright Federation, is ordered to infiltrate the Mikasa music school, which is facing a lawsuit with the federation, and gather evidence. He is reluctant, but after 12 years he picks up a cello again, and little by little he begins to fall back into the melodies he had forgotten amid his nightmares. The Labuca Trembles. Tachibana is an undercover spy. It is a difficult
Sonata for the Labuca is by Mio Adan, who made her debut after winning the 30th Subaru Novel Newcomer Award. The novel won second place in the Booksellers' Award and received the Miraiya Novel Award and the Haruhiko Oyabu Prize. With so many awards, it is no surprise that the story is engaging and fun. It moves at a brisk pace from the opening and draws you straight through to the ending. It is an appealing book that makes you want to listen to the cello music that brings change to the
Sonata for the Labuca is by Mio Adan, who made her debut after winning the 30th Subaru Novel Newcomer Award. The novel won second place in the Booksellers' Award and received the Miraiya Novel Award and the Haruhiko Oyabu Prize. With so many awards, it is no surprise that the story is engaging and fun. It moves at a brisk pace from the opening and draws you straight through to the ending. It is an appealing book that makes you want to listen to the cello music that brings change to the
I envy people who play instruments well, since I am not good at them. Someone who plays piano seems romantic, while a person who plays a string instrument such as violin, viola, or cello seems to have a refined elegance. I have heard that certain instruments suit certain personalities. That seems true when so many people who play delicate string instruments like the violin, viola, and cello are sensitive and fine-grained. The protagonist of Sonata for the Labuca, Tachibana, also plays cello.
Tachibana is an ordinary office worker who becomes a spy and begins an adventure for his company. But the resolve he had at the start gradually begins to waver. Just thinking about spies makes your heart race. At the center of a quiet legal battle between a music-rights organization and a music school, Tachibana plays an active role. His mission is to infiltrate the school where he once studied cello and find evidence that it is using copyrighted sheet music. He enters the school his boss
The cover showing someone playing cello and the title made me wonder if this was a music novel. Let’s go inside. This spring, Tachibana transferred to the data department of the Japanese Music Copyright Federation, which manages music copyrights in Japan. His boss Shiotsubo calls him downstairs and asks an unexpected question: can he play cello? Tachibana wonders what playing an instrument has to do with work. After the federation announces it will charge large music schools copyright fees,
[Sponsored book review] Sonata for a Frilled Shark, a novel by Adan Mio, translated by Kim Eun-mo. Tachibana, an employee of the Japanese Music Copyright Federation, is ordered to investigate Mikasa Music School undercover. He enrolls in its advanced cello class and will study cello during the two-year assignment. He realizes that something besides fear of the cello has remained inside him. As a child, he was nearly abducted in his neighborhood while learning cello, but escaped thanks to the
