It probably also gives him the language skills to do it in English without recourse to a translator. This probably gives him enough global insight to write about a US-born high flyer with an Asian heritage heading off to Burma to find out the truth of her father's disappearance. Writing on Sendker's previous novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats for this website, I said Sendker is German-born (Hamburg 1960) and worked as American correspondent for Stern (1990 to 95) and then as its Asian correspondent from '95 to '99. Just as beautiful and satisfying as the previous book - but I would urge readers to start at the beginning. This leads her back to her father's homeland of Burma and the heart-wrenching tale of mother's love and the choices it forces her into. Summary: Ten years after the events in The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Julia Win starts hearing voices.
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