If you like fast-paced wish-fulfillment stories, you can leave. This novel is literary in style, with exquisite settings, delicate emotions, and fantastical historical elements. The protagonist draws on personal experience and the words of countless people to resolve the regrets of many.
Let me stress this again: this is not for readers who like fast food! It's incredibly boring! A hundred thousand words of preface!
In matters of the heart, we often can't know which meeting will be our last. Those unremarkable moments may not seem all that meaningful when we part, but when a relationship comes to an end, we look back and realize that an ordinary meeting was, in fact, the last one, now blurred in memory.
This final meeting holds regrets between people, the pain of parting from treasured things, reconciliation between nations, deep devotion between people and their country, and the sorrow of being unable to be with the one you love.
