![]() But she soon finds herself unable to withstand the almost mystical invocation of past events, intertwined with the influence and love of the stars. Julia initially refuses to believe that this charming boy is related to her father. She is intrigued and returns every afternoon to hear his amazing stories about her father’s youth, including his childhood blindness, education at a monastery and his passionate relationship with a local girl. ![]() She travels to Kalaw, a small mountain village, to meet a man who claims he knows her father and has an almost uncanny understanding of Julia. Julia sets her career aside to solve the mystery and come to terms with her father’s past. Her mother discovers a piece to the puzzle a few years later, a love letter that was unmailed to Mi Mi, a Burmese woman. ![]() Julia Win’s father vanishes without a trace on the morning Julia Win graduates from law school. He lives in Middletown, Connecticut with his wife and their two children. He is a native American, but has lived in Japan and Germany. ![]() THE TRANSLATOR: Kevin Wiliarty holds a BA from Harvard in German and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Berlin, Germany with his family. His first novel was The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. ![]() Cracks in the Great Wall was his non-fiction book on China. He was American correspondent for Stern between 19 and Asia correspondent from 1995 to 1999. THE AUTHOR: Jan-Philipp Sendker was born in Hamburg, 1960. ![]()
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