Min Jin Lee

During one of their monthly lunches, Hansu had said that the leftists were a “bunch of whinners” and the rightists were “plain stupids”. Noa was alone mostly, but he did’nt feel lonely. Even after two years, he was still in thrall with just being at Waseda, with just having a quiet room to read in. Like a man starved, Noa filled his mind, ravenous for good books. He read through Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Austen, and Trollope, then moved on to the Continent to read through much of Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, then fell in love with Tolstoy. His favorite was Goethe ; he must have read The Sorrows of Young Werther at least half a dozen times.
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