A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker is the sequel to his beautiful novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. It is now ten years later, and Julia, a lawyer in New York finds herself drawn back to visit her brother in her father's native country of Burma.
Beautifully written, and often times mystical, yet lacking the beauty of the first novel, it felt a bit contrived and left you hanging at the end. I assume there will be a third book to follow. I am still a fan of Sendker's writing, but I found this book to be a bit of a disappointment after Heartbeats.
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