Paperback: During a trip to China, Paul and Christine experience the nightmare of every parent: their four year old son is kidnapped. They are reunited after a few hours but the kidnappers, very powerful people in today’s China with close contacts to the police, dearly want the child back. The only safe place for the family is the US embassy in Beijing, but they are two thousand miles away, with the police searching frantically for them, and all airports, train stations and major roads under surveillance. They will have no chance without help from strangers, but who will be willing to risk their lives for them?
Whom can they trust?
The Far Side of the Night (2019) is a powerful, transporting novel about the struggle to maintain humanity in an impossible situation and is the third and latest book in the Rising Dragon Series.
The Far Side of the Night is also available in eBook from the iBookstore.
About the author: Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, and, longing to travel the world, became the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000, he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China.
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is his first novel, and since then, he has written 3 further novels, including a sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, A Well-Tempered Heart. In 2013, he received The Indies Choice Honour Award in the category Adult Fiction for The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, which became an international bestseller.
He lives in Potsdam with his family and has recently released his third instalment in his China-trilogy, The Far Side of the Night (2019).
About the translator: Christine Lo is an editor in book publishing in London. She has also worked as a translator in Frankfurt and translated books by Juli Zeh and Senait Mehari from German into English. Her most recent translation is Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky. She serves as one of the judges of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation.
Rating: 5/5
Jan-Philipp Sendker has become one of my favourite authors over the last few years and The Far Side of the Night is a great book in the Rising Dragon series. Unfortunately, not all of his books have been translated into English, yet, but I'm sure they will.
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