It is an unforgettable and haunting novel. Sensuous and lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, The Piano Tuner is a hypnotic tale of myth, romance and self-discovery. It was first published in 2002 when Mason was 26 and was his first novel. The chronicler of the journey of The Piano Tuner is a new and dexterous storyteller, Daniel Mason, whose voice in this first novel has the haunting quality of a sonata that passes through various curtains of time. And, ultimately, whether he will ever be able to return home unchanged to the woman who awaits him there. The Piano Tuner is a historical novel by Daniel Mason, set in British India and Burma. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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