The Piano Tuner - Softcover

Mason, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330492667 ISBN 13: 9780330492669

Publisher: Vintage, 2003

Synopsis

"The Shan Hills," Edgar repeated and stared past the temples that stood like soldiers in formation to the mountains, which rose abruptly from the plain and seemed to hover in the sky. He thought of a river that ran through those hills, and how somewhere, hidden in the darkness, a man waited who perhaps stared out at the same sky. Who had yet to know his name. On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British officer, whose success at making peace in the war-torn Shan States is legendary, but whose unorthodox methods have begun to attract suspicion. So begins the journey of the soft-spoken Edgar across Europe, the Red Sea, India, Burma, nd at last into the remote highlands of the Shan States. En route he is entranced by the Doctor's letters and by the shifting cast of tale-spinners, soldiers and thieves who cross his path. As his captivation grows, however, so do his questions: about the Doctor's true motives, about an enchanting and elusive woman who travels with him into the jungle, about why he came. And, ultimately, whether he will ever be able to return home unchanged to the woman who awaits him there...Sensuous and lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, The Piano Tuner is a hypnotic tale of myth, romance and self-discovery. It is an unforgettable and haunting novel.

About this title

About the Author:

After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard in 1998 with awards in sceince and creative writing, Mason spent a year studying malaria on the Thai-Myanmar border before beginning medical school in San Francisco. He will graduate in 2003. A seasoned lecturer, brilliant and inexhaustible, he couldn't be more promotable.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0330492667
• ISBN 13: 9780330492669
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358