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A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War 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, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
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The piano tuner, Daniel Mason
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2003
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- Titre
- The piano tuner
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Daniel Mason
- Éditeur
- Vintage Books
- Publié
- 2003
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 1400030382
- ISBN13
- 9781400030385
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Voyage, Thématique musicale, Amour, Guerres, Littérature américaine, 19e siècle, Angleterre, Roman social, Grande-Bretagne, Asie, Culture, Voyage, Piano, Colonialisme, Jungle, Voyages et expéditions, Instruments de musique, Colonies, Plan, Colonisation, peuplement, Birmanie, Exotisme, Empire britannique
- Première publication
- 2002
- Titre original
- The Piano Tuner
- Évaluation
- 3,6 sur 5
- Description
- A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War 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, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.









