Il piccolo principe birmanoUna giovane newyorchese parte per la Birmania sulla tracce del padre, sparito quatto anni prima... Non �� male la storia (di amore e disabilit��) ma la scrittura... io l'ho trovata piatta e a tratti stucchevole, infarcita di "belle frasi" rubate ai baci perugina e al Pi...
Thoughtful. There were some passages that caused me to think about love and how we see the world. Oh the end. A disappointment to an otherwise beautifully conceived book
This was an interesting book; essentially two stories in one. Julie is a young attorney in NYC. Four years earlier, right after she graduated from law school, her father disappeared. Just vanished without a trace. His last known location was Burma, where he was from. Julie decides that she h...
Four and a half stars for a worthy sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats:The story of Julia's father having been completed, this sequel cannot delve further into that wonderful saga, but that is no reason to pass this up...It has been ten years since Julia's visit to Burma and the discovery of ...
I started this sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats with trepidation, and I was right. I loved The Art of Hearing Heartbeats but saw no need for a sequel and this did not disappoint my very low expectations. Spoiler alert for the rest of this comment. The beautiful writing was the same, but...
The driver shot us one more look of pity, then disappeared around the bend. Amy and I stood there surrounded by an eerie silence. No birds, no insects. Not even the wind whispering in the treetops. I looked around. Not much color. Leafless trees, scraggy brush, boulders thrusting up out of the ea...
She had just had a shower and was sitting on the bed with the remote control in one hand and a plate of rice crackers in the other, staring at the screen. Her skin was pale, barely distinguishable from the white silk sheets, so her black hair, dark-brown eyes, and plump, deep-red lips stood out a...