![]() When she arrives Kalaw and asks about her father, she finds a man named U Ba who says he has been waiting for her for years. Several years go by without any word of him but when Julia's mother sends her a box of her father's things, she finds the letter and sets out on her quest to discover what happened to her father. ![]() ![]() Tin Win is a high powered, successful Wall Street lawyer when he disappears the day after Julia's law school graduation. Julia Win travels to her father's village in Thailand searching for him with the only clue she has to his disappearance: an unmailed love letter addressed to a woman named Mi Mi in Tin Win's village. Jan-Philipp Sendker explores this idea and the enduring love that the heart can find when it is allowed to see unfettered by our other senses in his masterfully translated novel, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. ![]() And sometimes those of us with reasonably decent eye sight miss the things that the heart sees. The heart and the mind do not see in equal measure. ![]()
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