The Piano Tuner : A Novel (Paperback)

from alic

Another amazingly well written first novel. The author was most definately playing with his readers, presenting them with an fuzzy filter on reality, and letting them pick and choose their own versions of the truth. And the idea of diplomacy through music, and building a common understanding with...

from christinedux

Set in Burma in 1886, this novel brings Edmund Drake into complicity with the dashing Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll's visionary dream. A profound adventure story with an unexpected climax, as the mild piano tuner finally becomes the hero of his own life.

from Smits

Such a beautifully descriptive novel of Burma. It seems so lovely, musical and dream like. You really have to root for the little, quiet , shy piano tuner who innocently embarks on a grand adventure to tune a Erard Grand piano in the jungles of Burma.

from msbaba

The Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason, is a mysterious and mesmerizing tale of adventure set in the jungles of 19th-century Burma at the height of the Shan Rebellion. At the center of the story is the a most unlikely hero, Edgar Drake, a gentle-mannered London piano-tuner who specializes in repairing ...

from mattviews

In October 1886, about a year after the British invaded and took over the lower region of Burma, a shy and modest piano tuner Edgar Drake received a strange request from the British War Office. The Crown had requested of his immediate service in repairing an Erard grand piano thousands of miles a...