Through U May’s guidance, Tin Win learned to rely on his other senses, especially the sense of sound. He studied with U May, a Buddhist monk, at the local monastery. By the age of ten, he was developing cataracts that ultimately left him blind. Tin Win was cared for and raised by a neighbor, Su Kyi. When Tin Win’s father was accidentally killed at work, Tin Win’s mother had been through enough. A great aunt died eight weeks to the day after Tin Win was born. The astrologer's prediction coincided with Tin Win’s mother's belief that Tin Win was a bad omen because all of the chickens in the neighborhood had died after his birth. An astrologer prophesied that Tin Win would be negatively affected by his eyes. U Ba begins his story by telling Julia that her father, Tin Win, was born to a very superstitious mother and a mildly-superstitious father. U Ba speaks to Julia about the importance of love, and he begins to tell the story of her father’s first twenty years of life, something unknown to Julia and her family. He explains he knows her through her father. U Ba knows almost everything about Julia, which perplexes and intrigues her. She meets a mysterious man named U Ba at a tea house.
Her father has abandoned her family, and she is seeking to find answers. When the novel begins, Julia has recently arrived in the town of Kalaw, Thailand, from New York. “The Art of Hearing Heartbeats” is a romance mystery novel by Jan-Philipp Sendker in which a young woman, Julia Win, sets out to track down her father four years after he disappeared in Burma.
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