The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - the international bestselling phenomenon (The Burma Trilogy)

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I speak of a love that breathes meaning into life, that defies the natural laws of deterioration, that causes us to flourish, that knows no bounds. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life.

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In a teahouse in Kalaw, a small town in Burma—the opening pages are a lovely rendering of her sensory overload—Julia encounters a mysterious older man named U Ba who says he has been waiting for her. The writing is so incredibly sloppy, I cannot even begin to understand how this atrocity of a book could be published without someone actually realising that it's like a fucking 15-year-old wrote it. Their lives unfold in a manner that each would have changed, if they could, yet they stayed true to each other.but as soon as I finished and started to reflect on it, the whole thing imploded like a house of cards.

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Tin Win develops a condition with his eyes, such that he becomes blind, and Mi Mi is born with a defect to her feet. If our life as humans shall have meaning, we need to love and need to be loved no matter where we live.

It would be tremendously improved if the protagonist started running around beating people up with amazing martial arts moves using his cane. It evokes a quiet sense of dignity and patience, which are important to the main characters, and integral to the Buddhist spirituality, which plays a key role in the narrative. 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.

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Then, when I listen to my mother and read a book she insists that I simply must, I am never disappointed. We must learn to divine the true nature of things, their substance, and the eyes are rather a hindrance than a help in that regard. When Julia Win's successful and wealthy father mysteriously disappears from their New York apartment soon after her law school graduation, she decides to track him down half a world away. Telling the story of a young blind man’s journey through a world of auditory intensity, Jan-Philipp Sendker renews one’s faith in the possibility of real, pure love.I've been through one too many of these eloquent, poignant, world-travelling, "deep" self-discovery journeys already, both fictional and nonfictional, and am so very tired of these tropes. At 14 he encounters Mi Mi when, with a newly discovered magical skill to hear and interpret heartbeats, he hears her heart beating. The author Sendker was correspondent in America and Asia for Stern, the weekly German news magazine, for some years.

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Kalaw is his favorite city in Myanmar and the novel’s settings are based on actual houses there, but those may not be available for use in the movie as they are so old, he said.AND SO THERE must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know it ceases to exist. Ich möchte gar nicht darüber nachdenken, wie viele solcher Leseperlen mir dadurch vielleicht schon entgangen sind. In fact, it does, but more often than not the writing is a little too simple, the storyline a little too unbelievable, and the characters make transformations in attitude for no apparent reason.