![]() ![]() Heartbeats begins with Julia, a young hapa Burmese American woman from New York, who arrives on the other side of the world in search of news about her father, a wealthy, powerful lawyer who disappeared four years ago without a word to his family. ![]() The title’s arduous journey Stateside as told by author Jan-Philipp Sendker, who was both American and Asian correspondent for the German newsmagazine Stern, is well worth a read. Long an international bestseller, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats arrives in English translation a whole decade after its native German publication. ![]() That, I believe, is a perfect literary moment.īut to get the full experience, you should, of course, read the entire debut novel. I think I will forever remember this book, perhaps not so much for the story, but for a single word: a blind young man sitting in the dark with hands running across the pages answers when asked what he’s doing … “Traveling.” ![]()
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