The Piano Tuner

The Piano Tuner

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<b>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book</b><br><b>A <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>San Jose Mercury News</i>, and <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Best Book of the Year</b><br><br><b>“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>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, <i>The Piano Tuner </i>launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.