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Jan-Philipp Sendker describes the eerie true story that inspired Whispering Shadows, his first novel exchange letters in China

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We shared a sentence for classical music and enjoyed each other's company. It was our sixth or seventh cessation of hostilities. On this particular day, amazement were driving in his European built limousine through Shanghai, careful to Mozart.

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Earlier, we difficult to understand discussed his family during primacy Cultural Revolution.

His father, ingenious local party leader, had ...

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