La interesa titolo igis min malfermi la romanon kaj legi la unuan ĉapitron tie mem.

La means the. So La interesa titolo means the interesting title.

In Esperanto, la is used much like English the: when you mean a specific thing, not just any one. Without la, interesa titolo would mean an interesting title or interesting title in a more general sense.

Because La interesa titolo is the subject of the sentence: it is the thing doing the causing.

In Esperanto:

• the subject normally has no -n
• a direct object normally takes -n

So here:

• La interesa titolo = the subject
• min = object of igis
• la romanon = object of malfermi
• la unuan ĉapitron = object of legi

Igi is a very useful Esperanto verb meaning to cause to become / to make someone do something, depending on context.

Here, igis means made or caused.

So:

• igi = to cause, to make
• igis = caused / made

In this sentence, La interesa titolo igis min... means The interesting title made me... or caused me to...

Because min is the object form of mi.

• mi = I
• min = me

In La interesa titolo igis min malfermi..., the title is acting on me, so Esperanto uses the accusative form min.

A good way to see it is:

• the title = subject
• me = the person being made to do something

So igis min = made me

After igi, Esperanto commonly uses an infinitive to show what someone is caused to do.

So the pattern is:

• igi iun fari ion = to make someone do something

In this sentence:

• igis min malfermi la romanon
• kaj legi la unuan ĉapitron

That means:

• made me open the novel
• and read the first chapter

Since these actions are what the speaker was made to do, they appear as infinitives: malfermi, legi.

Because the same min applies to both infinitives.

So:

• igis min malfermi la romanon kaj legi la unuan ĉapitron

means:

• made me open the novel and read the first chapter

Esperanto does not need to repeat min if it is clearly the same person doing both actions.

If you expanded it, the sense would be:

• igis min malfermi la romanon kaj [igis min] legi la unuan ĉapitron

But that repetition would be unnecessary.

Because they are direct objects.

• malfermi la romanon = to open the novel
• legi la unuan ĉapitron = to read the first chapter

In Esperanto, direct objects usually take -n.

So:

• romano = novel
• romanon = novel as direct object

and

• ĉapitro = chapter
• ĉapitron = chapter as direct object

Because adjectives agree with the nouns they describe.

So if the noun is:

• singular: ĉapitro
• accusative singular: ĉapitron

then the adjective must match:

• unua
• unuan

That is why Esperanto says:

• la unuan ĉapitron = the first chapter

Both words show the same grammatical ending.

Here unuan is ordinal, not cardinal.

• unu = one
• unua = first
• unuan = first, in the accusative singular

So la unuan ĉapitron means the first chapter, not one chapter.

Tie means there, and mem adds emphasis.

So tie mem means something like:

• right there
• there itself
• on the spot

In this sentence, it suggests that the speaker opened the book and started reading immediately, in that very place.

Mem is an emphatic word. It often means something like:

• self
• itself
• even
• right

depending on context.

Examples:

• mi mem = I myself
• li faris tion mem = he did it himself
• tie mem = right there / on the spot

So in your sentence, mem strengthens tie.

Yes, that is a very natural translation.

Igis min can often be translated in several ways:

• made me
• caused me to
• got me to

All of those can fit, depending on tone.

Yes, Esperanto word order is fairly flexible, but this sentence uses a very normal, clear order.

Current order:

• La interesa titolo — subject
• igis min — verb + object
• malfermi la romanon kaj legi la unuan ĉapitron — infinitive actions
• tie mem — adverbial phrase

Because Esperanto marks objects with -n, you can move things around more easily than in English. Still, the original order sounds natural and easy to understand.

Because both actions depend on igis.

The sentence is not saying:

• the title made me open the novel, and then I read the first chapter

It is saying:

• the title made me open the novel and read the first chapter

Both malfermi and legi are parallel infinitives controlled by igis.

That structure is very common in Esperanto.

Yes. Romano specifically means novel.

If you wanted book, you would normally say libro.

So:

• romano = novel
• libro = book

That means the sentence is specifically about opening a novel, not just a book in general.