Autumn in Paris, a novel by Ilana Tan

Love doesn’t always as beautiful as our imagination. Sometimes, love is forced to fall when it blooms. How can bitter past life destroy love? Can past life be changed?

Tara Dupont, half France, half Indonesian like autumn in Paris. She has everything in life. She lives with her father and works as radio announcer. Tatsuya Fujisawa, Japanese architect who hates autumn in Paris. He meets Tara and it changes his thought about autumn in Paris. They become closer and spend their times going to beautiful and romantic places in Paris together.

Unfortunately, fate don’t do it right and make them in dilemma. Slowly but sure, their past will destroy their love. Tara and Tatsuya don’t realize the link connecting their past. A secret that break hope, feeling and faith. When the truth is revealed, desperation and powerless are floated too. Reality that push one of them to finish life.

“As long as she is happy, I will. Just as simple as it is”

Ilana Tan’s second book. This time, it’s about Tara Dupont and Tatsuya Fujisawa. Tara is Han Soon-he’s cousin (Summer in Seoul female lead). The beginning is good. Tara met Tatsuya and they became close. The story is sunny and cheerful. But, the Pandora box is opened too fast. In the middle of the book, Tara cried and felt desperate. As if , her life and Tatsuya’s are so cruel to them. Ms. Tan wrote their feelings so blue. They can’t work. They can’t smile anymore. They do anything feelingless. I cried a lot reading their sadness. I felt life is so unfair to them. And all I can say is: there are more tears in the end. I was shocked reading the ending.

Yeah, that’s life. We can’t blame our life. If we stuck at something, find another way to live our life again. If we have to run around the world, if the things are worth it, then go and grab them.

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