Uchida is the kindly groundskeeper of the cemetery where Isak is buried. At the end of the novel, he chats with a tearful Sunja and comforts her with the information that Noa visited Isak’s grave until the end of his life and even brought Uchida copies of Dickens’s works in translation, encouraging him to go to school.
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Book 3, Chapter 21
...grave and speak to him. As she sits crying next to his grave, the groundskeeper, Uchida, comes over to talk to her. He tells Sunja that Noa used to visit Isak’s...
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