So, what do I think of the book? The story is a beautiful, touching love story. How U Ba knows so much about her and her family is another thing which is revealed in the end. What follow next is Julia’s father’s story, her reaction to it, and some surprising revelations in the end. U Ba tells her that he knew her father and his story and proceeds to tell Julia about her father’s initial years. There in a teahouse, she meets an old man called U Ba. She tracks her father to a small Burmese town called Kalaw. Julia thinks of trying to find that out to see if it would help her find her father again.

No one in the family knows what her father did in the first twenty years of his life before he came to America. Julia’s father is of Burmese origin, while her mother is American. But Julia is not able to forget her father and four years after his disappearance, she goes on a quest in search of him. After being shocked and heartbroken, the family puts their life back together and move on. Then the next day her father says that he is going on a business trip and never comes back. When she graduated from law school her whole family – her father, mother and brother – celebrate it. The story told in ‘The Art of Hearing Heartbeats’ is the story of a quest. Now, when German Literature Month arrived, I thought it should be the first book that I should read. And when I got it as a present sometime back, I was really excited. One of my favourite friends told me about ‘The Art of Hearing Heartbeats’ last year.

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