'Engrossing...the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving,surrendering to the story's exotic magic.'- The TimesWhite. Like a clean piece of paper,like uncarved ivory,all is white when the story begins.One misty London afternoon in 1886,piano tuner Edgar Drake receives an unusual request from the War Office: he must leave his quiet life and travel to the jungles of Burma to repair a rare grand piano owned by an enigmatic army surgeon. So begins an extraordinary journey across Europe,the Red Sea,India and onwards,accompanied by an enchanting yet elusive woman. Edgar is at first captivated,then unnerved,as he begins to question the true motive behind his summons and whether he will return home unchanged to the wife who awaits him. . .An instant bestseller,Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner has been published in twenty-seven countries. Exquisitely told,this classic is a richly sensuous story of adventure,discovery,and how we confront our most deeply held fears and desires.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781529053821Number of pages: 384Weight: 272 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
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Engrossing...the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving,surrendering to the story's exotic magicRemarkable...a novel that immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardorA virtuoso tale,cast in the Burmese colonial wars of the 1880s...Mason (adds) a depth of quirky historical knowledge and a feel for the brutal politics of colonialism,to create a complex and subtly imagined adventure...with echoes of other books: Heart of Darkness,of course,and A Handful of Dust...a highly dextrous and involving performanceIntriguing and alluring...those strange images of Europe meeting the east,of the east engulfing Europe,linger like a haunting tuneAn ambitious,adventuresome,highly unusual first novel that offers pleasures too rarely encountered in contemporary American literary fiction...(Mason is) a gifted,original and courageous writerLuminous...Mason's writing achieves that kind of reverie in which every vision,tone,flavor and sensation is magnified
Daniel Mason
A novel with the quality of a spell,this mesmeric tale from the award-winning author of The Piano Tuner takes a single house in the woods of Massachusetts and those who inhabit it across four centuries to explore the countless ways in which the past lives on in nature,memory,language and the human heart.
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