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A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
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The piano tuner, Daniel Mason
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- The piano tuner
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Daniel Mason
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1400030382
- ISBN13
- 9781400030385
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Travel, Music Theme, Love, Wars, American Literature, England, 19th century, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, Asia, Culture, Journey, Piano, Colonialism, Jungle, Musical Instruments, Expeditions and Voyages, Colonies, Colonization, settlement, Plain, Myanmar, Exoticism, British Empire
- First published
- 2002
- Original title
- The Piano Tuner
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.