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A Well-Tempered Heart

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A Well-Tempered Heart

By: Jan-Philipp Sendker
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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The sequel to the international bestselling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.

Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father's native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered a miscarriage, and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.

One day, in the middle of an important business meeting, she hears a stranger's voice in her head that causes her to leave the office without explanation. In the following days, her crisis only deepens. Not only does the female voice refuse to disappear, but it starts to ask questions Julia has been trying to avoid. Why do you live alone? To whom do you feel close? What do you want in life?

Interwoven with Julia's story is that of a Burmese woman named Nu Nu who finds her world turned upside down when Burma goes to war and calls on her two young sons to be child soldiers. This spirited sequel, like The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, explores the most inspiring and passionate terrain: The human heart.

©2014 Jan-Philipp Sendker (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Romance World Literature

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Critic reviews

"An absorbing, moving sequel." ( Booklist)
"Sendker [is] a mesmerizing storyteller." ( Kirkus Reviews)
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I feel that sometimes a story interests, draws and ultimately engages one, depending of how you feel and where you are in life at that moment. For me it was just right and I loved it.

Tender and touching.

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I was completely emersion in this beautiful story. Such skilled atmospheric writing and lovely narration.

Beautiful story

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The military of Burma are so vividly portrayed; the horror and violence. But this is a book of love too intertwined with Buddist philosophy.

Compelling, fearful and so different from anything else I have read.

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What a great story. I enjoyed listening to it. I can highly recommend it. Thank you!

Beautiful

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This is a beautifully written, will read book, combining mysticism with history, love, with hate, beauty, with ugliness, and a genuine sense of what it might of been like in Burma at the time of the book was written. The story of the two brothers was fascinating and totally unexpected. So many different stories are interwoven all come together. It was very satisfying to spend time with this book. I especially like the way it was read.

A well tempered heart was a wonderful book

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