Jan-Philipp Sendker is a former Asian correspondent for the German magazine Stern. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, his first novel, became an international bestseller, and was followed by two sequels, A Well-Tempered Heart and The Heart Remembers. The trilogy has been translated into forty languages. He lives in Potsdam, Germany.
