![]() “Daniel Mason’s ambitious, lyrical The Piano Tuner. Its author is rich in talent and promise.” – Philadelphia Inquirer artfully weaves psychology, politics, medicine and music theory into a polyphonic composition. a gifted writer.” – San Francisco Chronicle “ The Piano Tuner is a haunting, passionate story of empire and individualism. astonishing.” – The New York Times Book Review ![]() powerful prose style and his ability to embrace history, politics, nature and medicine. “Mason’s writing achieves that kind of reverie in which every vision, tone, flavor and sensation is magnified.” – LA Times “Reminded me of books I read by flashlight, under the covers, when I was young.” – USA Today The Piano Tuner is a brilliant debut.” – Miami Herald A profound adventure story.” – The New Yorker “Intoxicating, full of sights to see, histories to learn, stories to entertain.” - USA Today Mason’s writing achieves that kind of reverie in which every vision, tone, flavor and sensation is magnified.” - Los Angeles Times a gifted, original and courageous writer.” - The Washington Post Book World “An ambitious, adventuresome, highly unusual first novel that offers pleasures too rarely encountered in contemporary American literary fiction. Riveting.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. Sensuous, lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, this is a hypnotic tale of myth, romance, and self-discovery: an unforgettable novel. And at the doctor’s fort on a remote Burmese river, Edgar encounters a world more mysterious and dangerous than he ever could have imagined. On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into Burma, Edgar meets soldiers, mystics, bandits, and tale-spinners, as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the surgeon-major. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods-poetry, medicine, and now music-have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.
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