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Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, was the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, his first novel, became an international best seller, and was followed by two sequels, A Well-Tempered Heart and The Heart Remembers. He lives in Potsdam with his family. Imogen Taylor was born in London in 1978 and has lived in Berlin since 2001. She is the translator of Sascha Arango, Dirk Kurbjuweit, and Melanie Raabe, among others. Her translation of Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Beside Myself (Other Press, 2020) was short-listed for the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize and the 2020 Schlegel-Tieck Prize.
Praise for The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: A lush tale of romance and family set in mid-twentieth-century Burma...beautiful...bound to enchant readers. -Booklist Magical...It's stories like The Art of Hearing Heartbeats that show how our very existence is important...What a gift that is. -Huffington Post Brilliant...Sendker's novel proves to be a love story of the most masterful variety...Coupled with an unusual glimpse into the Burma of the 1950s and today, readers will delight in the emotional power of Sendker's storytelling. -Shelf Awareness No matter what I even attempt to say, I can't possibly capture the absolute magic of this book. Like a spell, it haunts. Like love, it's going to endure. -Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You
