Jan-Philipp Sendker Livres

Dix ans se sont écoulés depuis que Julia est revenue de son voyage en Birmanie, le pays natal de son père où elle a découvert un frère. Brillante avocate à Manhattan, elle n'est pourtant pas épanouie et commence à entendre en elle une étrange voix posant des questions troublantes : "Pourquoi vis-tu seule ?", "Qu'attends-tu de la vie ?". Pour comprendre l'origine de cette voix, Julia repart en Birmanie et y découvre le destin fascinant d'une femme : Nu Nu, qui va bouleverser sa vie...

Une jeune femme partie en Birmanie à la recherche de son père va découvrir le passé de celui qu'elle croyait si bien connaître. Une histoire d'amour magnifique et bouleversante.

Accablé de chagrin après la mort de son fils, Paul Leibovitz s'est retiré dans la solitude de la petite île de Lamma au large de Hong Kong. Mais depuis qu'il a rencontré Christine Wu, il commence à se dire qu'une nouvelle vie est possible. Un jour, Christine reçoit une lettre de son frère dont elle n'a plus de nouvelles depuis quarante ans. Paul décide alors de l'accompagner jusqu'au village de son frère, au fin fond de la Chine, où sévit une mystérieuse maladie neurologique. Retrouvant ses réflexes de journaliste, Paul va chercher à découvrir les causes de ce mal étrange. C'est ainsi qu'il apprend que le lac où les villageois viennent régulièrement pêcher est empoisonné, sans que les autorités ne cherchent à remédier à cette tragique pollution. Pire : elles protègent les malversations de l'usine coupable, en laissant courir des rumeurs à propos d'une malédiction qui pèserait sur le lac et la population qui vit aux abords. Mêlant l'art du suspense à une profonde humanité, dans ce style qui définit si bien l'oeuvre de Sendker, Le Langage de la solitude offre au lecteur un récit passionnant au coeur de cette Chine contemporaine qui commence à s'ouvrir mais dont on ignore encore tant de choses. Traduit de l'anglais par Laurence Kiefé

The highly anticipated final book in the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats trilogy, a moving story about love’s power to transcend distances and heal seemingly irreparable wounds. Twelve-year-old Ko Bo Bo lives with his uncle U Ba in Kalaw, a town in Burma. An unusually perceptive child, Bo Bo can read people’s emotions in their eyes. This acute sensitivity only makes his unconventional home life more difficult: His father comes to visit him once a year, and he can hardly remember his mother, who, for unclear reasons, keeps herself away from her son. Everything changes when Bo Bo discovers the story of his parents’ great love, which threatens to break down in the whirlwind of political events, and of his mother’s mysterious sickness. Convinced that he can heal her and reunite their family, Bo Bo decides to set out in search of his parents. A gripping, heartwarming tale that takes the reader from Burma to New York and back, The Heart Remembers is a worthy conclusion to Jan-Philipp Sendker’s beloved series.

During a trip to China, Paul and Christine experience the nightmare of every parent: their four year old son is threatened with kidnap. The only safe place for the family is the US embassy in Beijing, but they are two thousand miles away, with the police searching frantically for them, and all airports, train stations and major roads under surveillance. They'll have no chance without help from strangers, but who will be willing to risk their lives for them?Suspenseful and rife with the page-turning storytelling that has come to define Sendker's work, The Far Side of the Night is a brilliant and timely thriller that offers a penetrating look into contemporary China.

Jan-Philipp Sendker has visited Myanmar (Burma) for over twenty years and, while doing research for his novels The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart, he encountered numerous folktales and fables. These stories reveal the rich mythology and spirituality of the diverse peoples of Burma, and the profound social impact of Buddhist thought. Reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, this collection illustrates how all cultures draw on a universal wisdom to create their myths.The Long Path to Wisdom's evocative stories are sure to delight fans of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats as well as readers new to the magic and emotion of Sendker's writing.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disaster. Eighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of the wealthy Benzes. But when the pandemic comes, they are all let go, and left staring into the abyss of abject poverty. As their situation grows increasingly desperate, the once rule-abiding monastery student decides he won’t wait at the mercy of a corrupt, indifferent government, and rebels against his father’s resigned acceptance. Sneaking through the locked-down city at night, past the military patrols, Niri returns to the villa to take what his family needs to survive. Waiting for him there is his childhood friend—and the Benzes’ daughter—Mary, who has a bigger plan that will change their lives forever. A universal story of love across social classes, The Rebel and the Thief poignantly shows how adversity can teach us what matters most: courage to resist, will to change, and unconditional trust in each other.

"American expat Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul's marriage unravels in the fallout. Now Paul is living as a recluse on an outlying island of Hong Kong. When he makes a fleeting connection with Elizabeth, a distressed American woman on the verge of collapse, his life is thrown into turmoil. Less than twenty-four hours later, Elizabeth's son is found dead in Shenzhen, and Paul, invigorated by a newfound purpose, sets out to investigate the murder on his own"--Amazon.com.