Ueno Station

” I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there's the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the pages may be numbered, but there is no plot. There may be an ending, but there is no end.”

Menemukan buku ini dari kumpulan jurnal membaca nya mas Eka Kurniawan. I really love the opening sentence. Tokyo Ueno Station bisa dikatakan semacam slice of life khas buku-buku jepang dengan membawa dark and deep tema, diambil dari pov kazu homeless ghost that still wandering around ueno park. Menceritakan flashback kehidupan dia full of bad luck and living in poverty. Hampir di setiap paragraf ngerasa banyak related sama kehidupan kazu, pas bagian how he feel after he only son died young