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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 decades earlier to a Burmese woman that he has never mentioned to either of them. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. It's there that she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader's belief in the power of love to move mountains.
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The art of hearing heartbeats, Jan-Philipp Sendker
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Jan-Philipp Sendker
- Verlag
- Center Point
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
- Seitenzahl
- 328
- ISBN10
- 1611733995
- ISBN13
- 9781611733990
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Historische Romane, Liebe, Familie, Frauen, Asien, New York, Suche, Vater, Familiengeheimnisse, Töchter, Menschen mit Behinderungen, Blindheit, Myanmar
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2002
- Originaltitel
- Das Herzenhören.
- Bewertung
- 4 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 decades earlier to a Burmese woman that he has never mentioned to either of them. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. It's there that she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader's belief in the power of love to move mountains.