None create any true sense of need or desperation or regret or anger risen to the point of revenge. None of them create any sense of true character. Perhaps this was an earlier work that was rushed to publication? Work from when she was a student given an assignment - 24 hours to write as many short stories as possible dealing with as many iterations of an affair gone wrong as possible? Because that is what this is - very short and very shallow, one-two-three tellings of various types of affairs (random, with a long term mistress, with a prostitute (s), mistaken, with a member of the same sex.

I really liked Sarah's Key as had very high hopes for another book by Tatiana de Rosnay. I am so sorry to say how disappointed I am in A Paris Affair. May God bless you this Christmas.īut look on the bright side - you were right all along! There is no thing as a faithful husband.' '.I am going to leave you now, my dear Jeanne, not only at the foot of this page, but forever - because I have nothing else to say to you. I had heard good things about this author and now, if this is representative of her work, I think I'll just pass on future novels or tales. Either way the collection does not sell itself and that is too bad. Perhaps this has something to do with the setting and perhaps in Paris, France infidelity is not only expected but is a time honored tradition as well. It is a sad and selfish representation of a married relationship. That somehow, the spouse believing in them and their marriage, is neglecting them with their faith. The cheaters actually are angry at times with their spouses for being so boring and for now realizing what is happening. There is little to no connection to the characters and if anything, these appear to be essays to support the growing belief that infidelity is a natural state and that being faithful in a relationship is the what is wrong. The problem is that it is overall a novel of the emotional toll taken on relationships when an affair happens, only the writing is very cold and uninviting. The stories are told from both the side of the spouse who is being cheated on and the cheater themselves. '.There is nothing more soporific than a faithful husband, especially when he is yours.' A Paris Affair by Tatiana de Rosnay is a collection of short stories set in Paris and whose central theme is adultery.