First and last lines A Corpse in the Koryo

First:

No sound but the wind, and in the stingy half-light before day, nothing to see but crumbling highway cutting straight through empty countryside.

Last:

The girl's book I left where it was, and the flowers too. As I shut the front door behind me and turned toward the station, I thought I spotted a line of geese heading south. They were flying straight as an arrow, high in an autumn sky that was as blue as anything I'd ever seen.