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Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, and, longing to travel the world, became the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is his first novel, and since then, he has written 3 further novels, including a sequel to "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats", "A Well-Tempered Heart". In 2013, he received The indies Choice Honor Award in the category Adult Fiction for "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. He lives in Potsdam with his family and is currently working on the third installment in his China-trilogy.
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	The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 80,163 ratings — published 2002 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Well-Tempered Heart (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 11,279 ratings — published 2012 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whispering Shadows (The Rising Dragon, #1) by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Goodreads Author), Christine Lo (translator) 3.67 avg rating — 2,013 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart Remembers (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, #3) by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Goodreads Author), Kevin Wiliarty (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 1,684 ratings — published 2019 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of Solitude by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Goodreads Author), Christine Lo (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 861 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebel and the Thief by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Goodreads Author), Imogen Taylor (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Am anderen Ende der Nacht (Die China-Trilogie, #3) 3.90 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Path to Wisdom: Tales from Burma by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Goodreads Author), Lorie Karnath (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Sendker 3.82 avg rating — 181 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Risse in der Großen Mauer. Gesichter eines neuen China. 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I have often wondered what was the source of her beauty, her radiance. It’s not the size of one’s nose, the color of one’s skin, the shape of one’s lips or eyes that make one beautiful or ugly. So what is it? Can you, as a woman, tell me?
I shook my head.
I will tell you: It’s love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There’s no need to ponder the question. There is no such person.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

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“Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail.”
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“And so there must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know ceases to exist. A moment that transform us into a different person from one heartbeat to the next.”
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Blackberry Winter

by Sarah Jio

9 votes, 13.0%

Leaving Time

by Jodi Picoult

9 votes, 13.0%

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

8 votes, 11.6%

Between Sisters

by Kristin Hannah

8 votes, 11.6%

Dollbaby

by Laura Lane McNeal

8 votes, 11.6%

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

by Jan-Philipp Sendker

5 votes, 7.2%

The Son

by Jo Nesbø

5 votes, 7.2%

The Lowland

by Jhumpa Lahiri

4 votes, 5.8%

The Lies We Told

by Diane Chamberlain

4 votes, 5.8%

Remember Me?

by Sophie Kinsella

4 votes, 5.8%

Child 44

by Tom Rob Smith

3 votes, 4.3%

The Brave

by Nicholas Evans

1 vote, 1.4%

The White Russian

by Vanora Bennett

1 vote, 1.4%

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