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Evi
This book is a piece of feminist literature. Kawakami is challenging traditional feminine roles, as you can see by the continued questioning by the main character Natsuko of her own role of a woman. In a way the author seems to present being single and/or a single mother as a valid life choice. Their relationship made complete sense to me, Natsuko was not able or willing to be intimate in a way that most men would expect and Aizawa's concept of the family was disrupted by his finding out his father was not his biological father. In her other two books, Kawakami also strays from fluffy endings and I think that leaves the reader with more to think about-- or at least it does for me.
Natasha Y.
I do end up hoping that they get together later, primarily because Aizawa had unresolved things with his family and Natsuko dreamt of being a mother herself. I don't imagine them as a couple, but living together or near enough to raise the child together.
Robbie
I wish you had marked this as a spoiler, especially since you’re asking rhetorically.
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