OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD ''
A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life'
JAPAN TIMES What he experienced that day wasn't life-changing . [Contains 5 exquisite hand-drawn illustrations].
Mega-bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, selected by bookshop staff as the book they most wanted to hand-sell: A tender and uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler.
It shows that the road to finding one's purpose is a winding path, often filled with treacherous doubts and, for those who persevere, astonishing moments of revelation.
Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners - one humble, one jovial, one ill-tempered - Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes? Set in small-town Japan, this warm and mystical story is for the lucky few who have found their calling - and for the rest of us who are still searching.
From that moment, he is determined to discover more.
It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village.
Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school.
It was life-making. . .
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD ''
A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life'
JAPAN TIMES What he experienced that day wasn't life-changing
