![]() It is beautifully told, with vivid images of the landscape, ways of life, and culture of Myanmar. The title comes from Tin Win’s ability to distinguish different heartbeats, since his hearing has become more acute. Tin Win develops a condition with his eyes, such that he becomes blind, and Mi Mi is born with a defect to her feet. Both Tin Win and Mi Mi have a disability, which initially brings them together and enables love to blossom. This is a classic love story between two young people separated by circumstances, family interference, and distance. She travels to Myanmar and stays with a man, U Ba, who knows her father’s story. It opens with Julia, a New York woman, searching for her father, Tin Win, who had abandoned her family. This is one of the few books I have read set in Myanmar (back when it was called Burma). ![]() ![]() But perhaps he merely loves us in some idiosyncratic way that we fail to recognize.†We assert that the other person does not love us. We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Then we acknowledge as love primarily those things that correspond to our own image thereof. We project our own capacities—for good as well as evil—onto the other person. ![]()
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