A lover of love stories, history, thrillers or science. Whether you are a fiction or no fiction reader. Though I read the translated version by Kevin Wiliarty, one can see it is Sendker, who is talking to us through a different language than he wrote in. Kevin Wiliarty has done an expert job of translating the beautiful work. That’s what my book is all about.” And so the writing, like the book, is sentimental, powerful and magnetic. He had once revealed in an interview, “If our life as humans shall have meaning, we need to love and need to be loved no matter where we live. The point behind writing this novel for Jan-Philipp Sendker was he wanted to establish the idea of true love in whoever reads it. The journey of Julia Win and her discovery of her father and his past and secrets has already won many hearts, and this time, mine too! The book celebrates the purest form of love- all-consuming, conquering, and uncorrupted. The old man goes on to tell her tales about her father, right from his childhood that makes Julia see her father in a completely new light, even as a stranger. He knows things about her father and promises to share it with her as long as she listens. Her search leads her to the tea house where she meets the old man staring at her. She is on a hunt, searching for her lost father. The character speaking these words is Julia Win.

It hooks you and stops your mind from diverting with every word. These are the opening lines of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.

As if I were some exotic creature he’d never seen before. Granted, everyone in the teahouse was staring at me more or less unabashedly, but he was the most brazen.

They rested deep in their sockets, and he seemed unable to take them off me. Here’s presenting The Art of Hearing Heartbeats review, straight from the heart. It’s a piece of German literature translated in English by Kevin Wiliarty. In the hope of learning something new about love and being transported to another magical tale of love, I started reading The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker. Before anything else, the title of the book made me pick it up.

The art of hearing heartbeats