Jan-Philipp Sendker is the author of the international best seller The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, the sequel A Well-Tempered Heart, and the recently published Whispering Shadows.

Born in Hamburg in 1960, Sendker 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 Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China. He lives in Berlin with his family.

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On The Making of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Q&A on The Art of Hearing Heartbeats