Detail Buku The Architecture Of Love (English) by Ika Natassa
New York has become a cinematic icon often featured in movies, not just a setting but also as a character and subject of the story, like in Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. New York is practically one of the most culturally distinctive places in the world that Raia, a writer, chose to flee to this city to chase inspirations after years of not being able to write even a single sentence, imprisoned by a haunting trauma. Raia turned every corner of the city into her “office”, walking through the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn, to Queens, trying to find a story in each person that she encountered, each smile that she saw, each conversation that she heard, in the eyes of strangers on the street and in the subway. Days, weeks, and months passed, the fallen leaves of autumn have now been replaced by snowflakes, and all Raia had was a blank screen and misery. Until she met someone who taught her to see the city, and herself, in a way she never knew before