Winter in Tokyo

another good novel by Ilana Tan

sejak sebelum aku hilang ingatan aku sudah menyukaimu.  Ketika aku tidak mengingat apa-apa, aku kembali jatuh cinta padamu........  Jadi, ya, aku akan tetap mengatakan hal yang sama walaupun seandainya ingatanku belum kembali.

a nice touching story, even better than Summer in Seoul,
i got into deep with the character of  Ishida Keiko and  Nizimura Kazuto...
lines by lines, i can go inside these two persons ..

the story itself is like the regular love story novel,
Keiko has a new neighbor who just move in to the apartment building,
this new neighbor, Kazuto is an artist (photographer and painters) from New York, who come to Tokyo looking for a fresher mood, because the girl he liked in NY wanted to get married with his best friend...


The story flow like usual, how these two get acquainted in their every day life,
who would have thought that something in the past actually linked the two together, even though just a slight moment, but the particular past moment had planted Keiko's mind to her first love ...




too bad, something happened with Kazuto after he just started to have a glance of his past with Keiko, before he ever had the time to mention it to Keiko ...
the story gets better after this bad incidents .....

now i know Ilana's styles of writings,
she always put one little nice touch
and as before, she has the whole explanation of the most important clue
way in the last chapter ...
i was already feeling a bit suspicious when she put that words once or twice from the beginning toward the middle, then that's the answer ....

whether in books, film, or tv series, i actually don't like it when amnesia is involved,
however, in Winter in Tokyo, i think the story gets better in this part ..
i go deeply in Keiko's character in this part, but at the same times i love how Kazuto character becomes, while he got amnesia...

anyway, i love every chapter  of this novel ...
been reading it over and over again and haven't get bored with it yet...
especially love to re-read at some touching parts ....