Chapter eighteen Now that I knew the identity of the Chairman, I began that very night to read every discarded news magazine I could find in the hopes of learning more about him. Within a week I’d accumulated such a stack of them in my room that Auntie gave me a look as if I’d […]

CHƯƠNG 18 Nhiều tuần trôi qua, một hôm tôi nhận được giấy báo đến nhà Mameha vào chiều hôm sau. Lúc này tôi đã quen mặc áo kimono vô giá do chị hầu của Mameha mang ra cho tôi, nhưng khi tôi đến, chị hầu đưa ra một chiếc áo kimono lụa dùng mặc mùa […]

Chapter seventeen I had seen the Chairman during only one brief moment in my life; but I’d spent a great many moments since then imagining him. He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. Though of course, the notes had changed a bit over […]