“Tan” is Le Ngoc’s 5th publication after his own and co-written books: The House Has Two People, It’s Okay That It’s Stormy Sometimes, Keep Dreaming and Keep Loving, Oppa, Take Me to Korea, Missing Hanoi, Loving Saigon…
“Tan” tells about love that has no end. Love yourself, love others to love life… In “Tan”, we see a Le Ngoc who is very emotional, very romantic but also full of hurt and fragility through the confession “My heart can melt for one person, at the same time, it can break for that person”.
Le Ngoc in “Tan” reminds us of the character Sumire in “Sputnik Sweetheart” by Haruki Murakami:
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. A fierce love, a veritable tornado that swept across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things into the air, tearing them to pieces, crushing them to pieces. The tornado never lost its intensity as it crossed the ocean, turning Angkor Wat into a wasteland, burning the Indian jungle with its tigers and all its animals, then turning into a sandstorm in the Persian Gulf desert, burying a strange fortress city under a sea of sand…”
"Tan" is such a book, a book that cleverly evokes the desire to breathe deeply and love deeply in each person. The 168 pages of Tan are spontaneous but profound and artistic sentences, covered with a silvery color of memories, where the intertwined brilliance makes happiness sweeter and sadness deeper.
What could be better than giving yourself up in love? Giving without calculation, being yourself, loving and being loved by someone.
You will relive every step of a seemingly endless love: from budding to passionate, broken and then becoming a memory and living forever in "Tan" by author Le Ngoc. There, you will face the most genuine emotions of a loving heart: The desire to meet each other every time you say goodbye; The resentment to the point of helplessness after each silence; The insecurities that fill the mind and even the dreams that follow every night's sleep; The times when your heart is broken for someone, you still choose to love them with all the broken pieces... Immersing yourself in Tan is allowing yourself to once again live in the emotions that have been and are nurturing the heart, whether it is happiness or pain.
"I'd rather make mistakes
Burn each other and that's it.
Better than being tormented forever
Searching for a lifetime”
Author Le Ngoc shared: “Tan” was born from my own emotions, but writing poetry allows me to separate it into many pieces, so the book of poems hides many egos in which you can find images of yourself and your loved one. The story told is the story of everyone. And this book, different from the two previous publications (written for me, for him). This time, I wrote “Tan” for everyone. Because I believe that everyone has, is, or will experience two extremes: melting and breaking up in love. Even if it is a perfect love, inside, there will certainly still be broken pieces that need to be mended. And regardless of whether you choose to melt, and melt, or not to melt, it will still be a happy choice, because it is your own choice.
