![]() ![]() In a teahouse in Kalaw, a small town in Burma-the opening pages are a lovely rendering of her sensory overload-Julia encounters a mysterious older man named U Ba who says he has been waiting for her. After finding an unmailed love letter he wrote to a Burmese woman named Mi Mi, his daughter Julia, also a Manhattan lawyer, goes in search of her father who never told his American Catholic wife or their two children anything about his life before America. Tin Win, a successful Wall Street lawyer originally from Burma, has been missing since his passport was discovered near the Bangkok airport four years ago. ![]() German journalist Sendker’s first novel, originally published in German in 2002, is a love story set in Burma and imbued with Eastern spirituality and fairy-tale romanticism. ![]()
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