review- novel autumn in paris

Novel Title: Autumn In Paris Author: Ilana Tan Publisher: PT Scholastic Press, Jakarta, 2007 Length: 280 pages Tara Dupont, the main character is a crossbreed Paris-Indonesia but he loved Paris and autumn. Tara Dupont also lives in Paris with his father and worked as an announcer at radio station which is quite famous. He also has an older sister who adopted French nationality he thought was love. Until he met Tatsuya Fujisawa, an architect who was working in Paris, a friend of the adoptive sister Tara. Tatsuya is a Japanese man who hates the fall in Paris, but his encounter with Tara to change her mind about autumn in Paris. She loved autumn in Paris due to Tara. Initially, they met by accident. And they became closer and fits unexpectedly. The good times they had together, walk to beautiful places in Paris, seeing the sights of Paris are romantic. But alas, fate makes their lives are in a dilemma turns out they are brothers, they have the same father. At the time they were in love, it turns out there are blocking them. Tatsuya must keep away from Tara, though she felt it was very difficult. The stark reality has made him falter. Until Tara also know the bitter truth ... and they love being in the ordeal. In the end Tatsuya Fujisawa returned to Japan in an accident that coma and eventually died. This book is a book that deserves to be read. The story is sad and touching, but not mushy. Romanticism was also felt at all in the novel. Like when Tatsuya write feelings in a letter and sent it to radio. Ilana Tan resemble this very interesting story. The story was not predictable. Many also knowledge about the city of Paris, which might be useful for us. Also there are many words in French that we can learn. Ilana also described the sights of Paris with a beautiful sentence, makes us curious about the city of Paris and come to imagine. The point of the story is that the love story will not always be as beautiful as we imagined, unexpected things can occur. But love will never run up at any time and to anyone. The advantages of this novel is different from novels in general a happy ending, the novel ends with sadness. The story of this novel is very touching, even to tears. This book also tells how the beauty of Paris in the fall until the reader carried away. While the shortcomings of the book are difficult to guess the ending, totally unpredictable. And the style is too raw. This book describes the content is good enough story, romantic but not overdone. Has a different ending than the existing novels in general.