The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: by Jan-Philipp Sendker | Conversation Starters E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch

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Introducing The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

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Introducing The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

THE ART OF HEARING HEARTBEATS BY JAN-PHILIPP Sendker is a romance novel set in New York City and Burma in the 1950s through to the present day. The story begins when Julia’s father, Tin Win, a successful Wall Street lawyer, mysteriously disappears. Julia and her mother have no idea that he was leaving New York to reconnect with his first love in Thailand.

Four years after he disappears, Julia finds a love letter that her father had written to Mi Mi, a Burmese woman. Julia desperately wants to know what happened to her father, so she puts everything on hold and travels to Burma on a whim to find this mysterious Mi Mi. Her search for answers eventually leads her to Kalaw, a small town in Burma. While in Kalaw, an elderly man named U Ba shares her father’s story with her. Julia was shocked to learn that her father, whom she viewed as stable and predictable, had a life such as this before she was even born. 

Much of the novel involves a narrative between Julia and U Ba. U Ba tells Julia the tale of Tin Win, from his adverse childhood through the time he fell in love with Mi Mi, and then how he came to leave Kalaw. U Ba told her that her father was abandoned by his parents as a young child because an astrologer had told his mother he was cursed and would lose his eyesight. When he was just ten years old, he began to lose his sight and eventually went blind, just as the astrologer had predicted. Julia also learned that her father ended up living in a monastery after he was abandoned by his mother. Tin Win spent several years studying under U May, the monastery abbot, who was a positive role model for him.