Friday's Recommendation #1

 Baru pertama kali loh ikut Friday’s Recommendation (malah bangga). Ampun Kak Ren >.< Belum begitu mudeng sama cara ikutnya sebenarnya, tapi sepertinya sih Friday’s Recommendation itu tempat yang tepat buat tebar-tebar kode gitu ke penerbit, biar buku kesayangan kita bisa cepat diterjemahkan dan segera nongol di toko buku.

Minggu ini saya menyarankan penerbit untuk menerjemahkan buku ini (please please pleaseeeee):

 When You Were Here- Daisy Whitney

Filled with humor, raw emotion, a strong voice, and a brilliant dog named Sandy Koufax, When You Were Here explores the two most powerful forces known to man-death and love. Daisy Whitney brings her characters to life with a deft touch and resonating authenticity.

Danny's mother lost her five-year battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation-the one day that she was hanging on to see.

Now Danny is left alone, with only his memories, his dog, and his heart-breaking ex-girlfriend for company. He doesn't know how to figure out what to do with her estate, what to say for his Valedictorian speech, let alone how to live or be happy anymore.

When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months, which seemed filled with more joy than Danny ever knew. There, among the cherry blossoms, temples, and crowds, and with the help of an almost-but-definitely-not Harajuku girl, he begins to see how it may not have been ancient magic or mystical treatment that kept his mother going. Perhaps, the secret of how to live lies in how she died.

Kadang kita diajak untuk mendalami perasaan tokoh yang sedang berjuang melawan kanker. Tapi bagaimana kalau sang tokoh bukan pejuang, melainkan seorang yang ditinggalkan? Saya suka sama karakter Danny di sini. Apalagi kita diajak menjelajah dari Amerika menuju Tokyo untuk mengungkap rahasia besar ibunya yang tertinggal. Baca novel ini tuh kesannya kalem dan syahdu gitu (pffft syahdu…)

 

Pengen ikutan meme Friday's Recommendation? Ini rulesnya :

1. Tulis buku yang ingin kamu rekomendasikan. Kategori buku yang akan direkomendasikan bisa memilih dari kategori di bawah ini :

a. Buku yang ingin diterjemahkan di Indonesia 

b. Buku yang sudah terbit di Indonesia, dan ingin kamu rekomendasikan ke pembaca.

Jangan lupa menulis alasan kamu merekomendasikan buku itu ya.

2. Jika kamu sudah pernah me-review buku yang ingin kamu rekomendasikan itu, taut balikkan ke link reviewmu.

3. Pasang button Friday's Recommendation, jangan lupa di taut balikkan ke blog Ren's Little Corner

4. Masukkan link Friday's Recommendation di blogmu ke linky yang telah disediakan.

5. Jangan lupa untuk blogwalking ke blog - blog lain

6. Waktu meme adalah bi-weekly. Diposting setiap hari Jum'at minggu ke-2 dan ke-4 tiap bulan