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Loading... The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (original 2002; edition 2012)by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Author), Kevin Wiliarty (Translator)
Work InformationThe Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker (2002)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Overall, I guess that I enjoyed the book. I thought the story of Tin Win and Mi Mi was sweet and sad and almost magical. BUT I was annoyed by the passivity of Tim Win. His feelings were profound and yet he was ok with living without her for fifty years? Really? Why? If he was truly content why suddenly go back to Burma? I'm too cynical for this book. The timeline for U Ba and Julia didn't make a great deal of sense to me either - their ages did not seem to reconcile. Perhaps I need to re read the early sections of the book to clear things up. I'm also not sure why they needed to add the "twist" at the end. To make the overall story arc more sad? I couldn't warm up to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. The characters' back stories seem melodramatic and contrived rather than authentic. The prose are not nearly as artful as they try to be. I'm not sure how to describe the style -- it has some magical elements but misses the mark for magical realism. Finally, at no time did I experience a sense that I had entered into "their world." Perhaps the writer has not found his voice? Belongs to SeriesBurma (1) Has the (non-series) sequelAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: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 beā?¦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 fatherā??s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the readerā??s belief in the power of love to move m No library descriptions found.
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A successful middle aged lawyer, one day leaves his home and family, never to be seen again. His grown daughter, Julia, after 4 years, gets a packet of letters from her mother, where she discovers her father may have had a secret love. She decides to go back to his homeland in Burma to discover what happened.
When she arrives, an older man approaches her, and for the rest of the book, he tells her a story; the story of her father.
The story is beautiful, tender and sweet. I love how it unfolds, such a wonderful tale of love.
The way it's told almost makes it like a fairy tale, but who of us doesn't want to hear a tale of undying love.
I found it fascinating and enchanting. ( )