![]() ![]() Jan-Philipp Sendker’s The Art of Hearing Heartbeats pulls out all the stops. ![]() Newly translated into English, the novel is now available here, and it will be interesting to see if its story “travels” as well to the US and UK. Word of mouth and book club interest have done the rest, making the book a huge best seller. It is easy to see why this novel, published in the author’s native Germany in 2002, has been such a resounding popular success there for the past three years, with booksellers giving it rave reviews, hand-selling it, and in one case even telling customers “they can bring it back if they don’t like it… get their money back, no questions asked.” Nobody has ever returned it. ![]() I speak of the triumph of the human spirit over selfishness and death.” 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. “I speak of a love that brings sight to the blind. ![]()
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