Move over Lolita! But only a little bit to the side. This novel is about a man in his early thirties reflecting back on his pursuing his now wife. He tells us that he fell for her in a kind of way when he first saw her when she was 15 and he was 28. He expresses his own curiosity about why he would fall in love with a child, as her refers to her, but discusses this further by explaining that she reminded him […]
When I compared them to Naomi, I sensed an unmistakable difference in refinement between those who are born to the higher classes of society and those who aren’t.
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki