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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: A Novel by Jan-Philipp Sendker | Conversation Starters
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: A Novel by Jan-Philipp Sendker | Conversation Starters
Julia is baffled by her father’s mysterious disappearance from his life in New York City—until the day she finds a love letter that he had written to a Burmese woman. Desperate for answers, she puts everything on hold and heads to a small village in Burma looking for this mysterious woman from her father’s past. On her journey, Julia learns about her father’s secret past, and just how powerful love is. Jan-Philip Sendker’s The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is a moving story of inconceivable adversity and passion. Tin Win and Mi Mi’s unconditional love for each other will pull you in from start to finish. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats has received much praise from readers and critics alike and won The Indies Choice Honor Award for Adult Fiction in 2013.
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Whispering Shadows: A Novel
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In this first book of the Rising Dragon series, “explore a side of Hong Kong tourists rarely experience” (Kirkus Reviews) as an expat journalist tries to crack a murder case in the “darkly beautiful, heart-wrenching” (Booklist, starred review) thriller set in China from the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.
Once an ambitious American expat and a dedicated family man, Paul Leibovitz is living as a recluse on an outlying island of Hong Kong. When he makes a fleeting connection with Elizabeth, a distressed American woman on the verge of collapse, his life is thrown into turmoil. Less than twenty-four hours later, Elizabeth’s son is found dead in Shenzhen, and Paul, invigorated by a newfound purpose, sets out to investigate the murder on his own.
As Paul, Elizabeth, and a detective friend descend deeper
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present.
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the by where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.
Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, was the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995 and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats fryst vatten his first novel. He li