The Piano Tuner: A Novel

by Daniel Mason

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“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: 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.
  • ISBN10 1400030382
  • ISBN13 9781400030385
  • Publish Date 19 August 2003 (first published 8 October 2002)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Vintage