Novel review

Ulva Khairani

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Novel Review

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Infinitely Yours

Title                              :           Infinitely Yours            

Author                          :           Orizuka

Publisher                      :           Gagas Media

Year of Publication       :           2011

Genre                           :           Romantic Comedy

Pages                           :           304

Size                              :           13 x 19 cm

           

            This novel is a recent work from an Indonesian novelist names Orizuka. It is published by Gagas Media publisher in 2011. It has 304 pages, and its size is about 13 x 19 cm. This novel has two main characters, Jingga and Rayan, which is in their vacation in Korea, thus, this novel mainly located there.

The story begins when Jingga, a twenty six-years girl, who is crazy about K-pop, plans to go to Korea. On the airport, she accidentally meets a clumsy guy, Rayan. The destiny brings Jingga to meet the guy for more, since they have to be partners in Together Tour. Rayan goes to Korea is not for vacation, instead looking for his ex-girlfriend, Mariska. Unlike Rayan, one thing that motivates Jingga to Korea is to meet his white-horse prince, Yun Jae.

In the middle of tour, Rayan silently runaway, and Jingga knows it. She is forced joins Rayan to his purpose to look for Mariska. In turns out that actually Mariska already has a fiance, a Korean boy. Therefore, it makes Rayan broken hearts. To console Rayan, Jingga has an idea to introduce how romantic Korea is through a tour which she calls ‘The Romanticism Tour of Korea’, since they are left by other members of tour group.

At first, Rayan does not believe in all of good things about Korea, includes the romantic things of it. In his mind, he believes that Korea has steal Mariska from him. Through many things that they do together, Rayan falls to Jingga, so is she. However, they still doubt since Yun Jae tells that what Rayan feels for Jingga is just temporary, and it means that Jingga is just his escapee from Mariska.

This novel is the 13^th work of a teenage novelist names Okke Rizka Septania, or well known as Orizuka. Born in Palembang for more than 26 years ago, Orizuka has write 16 novels, and one of her novel, Summer Breeze has adapted to a movie at 2008. Besides writing, Orizuka also like learning foreign languages, reading, watching, and fangirling with other K-popers.

In this novel, author uses third person perspective. She also can describe each scene in her novel clearly. I also like the selection words or Orizuka’s writing style. However, the author uses of too many foreign languages in this novel, thus I think it may disturb readers who do not understand the languages.

Overall, I think that this novel is really recommended for Indonesian teenagers who are infected by K-pop ‘viruses’. This novel teaches us one important thing; we may love other culture like Korean culture as long as your own culture is still number one for us. Besides, Orizuka also describes about each place in her novel very clearly, so that readers can imagine that they really are in the place that are mentioned by the author.