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Akiko Fumeki
Risa is the head filing clerk at Cosmos Pachinko in Nagano. When Risa was a teenager, her father, a doctor, committed suicide after accidentally causing patients’ deaths. Her family is ostracized as a result. She and Noa get married, though she never knows about his Korean roots, and they raise four children together before Noa commits suicide.
Risa Iwamura Quotes in Pachinko
The Pachinko quotes below are all either spoken by Risa Iwamura or refer to Risa Iwamura. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 3, Chapter 5
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The marriage was a stable one, and eight years passed quickly. The couple did not quarrel. Noa did not love Risa in the way he had his college girlfriend, but that was a good thing, he thought. Never again, he swore, would he be that vulnerable to another person. Noa remained careful around his new family. Though he valued his wife and children as a kind of second chance, in no way did he see his current life as a rebirth. Noa carried the story of his life as a Korean like a dark, heavy rock within him. Not a day passed when he didn’t fear being discovered.
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Risa Iwamura Quotes in Pachinko
The Pachinko quotes below are all either spoken by Risa Iwamura or refer to Risa Iwamura. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 3, Chapter 5
Quotes
The marriage was a stable one, and eight years passed quickly. The couple did not quarrel. Noa did not love Risa in the way he had his college girlfriend, but that was a good thing, he thought. Never again, he swore, would he be that vulnerable to another person. Noa remained careful around his new family. Though he valued his wife and children as a kind of second chance, in no way did he see his current life as a rebirth. Noa carried the story of his life as a Korean like a dark, heavy rock within him. Not a day passed when he didn’t fear being discovered.
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