A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A gripping and resonant novel.
From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 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.
Riveting. . . .
It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . .
A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A gripping and resonant novel