Book title: Winter in Tokyo
Type: Romance
Author: Ilana Tan
Publisher: Scholastic
Length: 320 pages
Edition: September 2008
It all started when Keiko Ishida who lived in a small two-story apartment on the outskirts of Tokyo sudden arrival of a new neighbor. Kazuto Nishimura, the name of the new neighbor. He returned to Tokyo after 10 years living in the United States and never returned to Japan.
Return one reason, to forget Yuri. Friends, neighbors, and the woman he loves and will marry his best friend. Slowly, Keiko getting familiar with Kazuto. Although the first impression after seeing Kazuto Nishimura Keiko is a man who is quite messy, but kindness Kazuto able to touch the hearts of Keiko in the short term, because it turned out to be a man Kazuto considerate, kind, fun and reliable. Their apartment opposite, further strengthen their relationship.
Both were unconscious when love slowly infiltrates in the liver. On the other hand, Keiko who since childhood still haunted by his first love, a young man who helped him find a blue hat necklace on a snowy day, it seems less able to open your heart to another man Kazuto even close to him. Keiko would still haunt her first love, Akira Kitano, trying to deny his feelings. As if forgetting Kazuto, Keiko himself swept up in her mind. Kazuto on the other, more expressive, given his job as a street photographer, he is quick to realize her feelings for Keiko. The focus of the camera is always aiming Keiko figure. Keiko chase figure, and frustrated because Keiko was never able to see it. All went so wrong. Until one day an unexpected encounter with his first love came suddenly. Apparently his first love Keiko as a child was a friend of Kazuto since childhood named Kitano Akira. Keiko is still rosy due to meet his first love had to face another harsh reality when, something precious that has been long in the side seemed to disappear without a trace, because of an unexpected accident occurs that causes memory loss Kazuto Nishimura.
Then, Kazuto memory loss due to an accident. Left a big hole in his chest. He can still remember until the day before his return to Tokyo when he was still in America. Unfortunately he forgot the best part of a month-long memories in Tokyo. Including one who has become a part of life, or current events Christmas Eve, ucapanna at the station, its promise valentine day. While he could not remember anything, Yuri part of the past that too come. Make him more distant from the people who should have loved her.
But fate still playing here. Unobstructed, the heart never lies. He was, he lost his memory, which should not remember anything always pounding every time I see him. Those who can not remember him. That's when Keiko realized how she felt about Kazuto. She felt so lost. And very hurt when Yuri came to Japan. But feelings can not lie. Despite forget the memories with Keiko, Kazuto keep falling into the same trap of love. She once again falls in love with Keiko. However, Kazuto can do little when the relationship with Keiko Kitano Akira getting intimate. It all felt so wrong.
Until finally Keiko Ishida truly realized her love for Kazuto Nishimura, and the same goes with Kazuto Nishimura who has recovered his memory still love Keiko Ishida before, during and after amnesia. And finally they were together.
In this third novel, Ilana Tan getting good at shaping the character of the main characters. So that this novel can leave a good impression in the hearts of readers, especially the young. Since most of the characters of this novel adapted to the character of today's youth. The teens who read this novel surely as if he had come to feel what is felt by the main character in the novel, especially the teens who like romance novels.
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