The Piano Tuner : A Novel Hardback
by Chiang-Sheng Kuo
Hardback
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This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha Jin A widower grieving for his young wife.
A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light district to snow-clad New York. At the heart of the story is the nameless narrator, the piano tuner.
In his forties, he is balding and ugly, a loser by any standard.
But he was once a musical prodigy. What betrayal and what heartbreak made him walk away from greatness? Long hailed in Taiwan as a “writer’s writer,” Chiang-Sheng Kuo delivers a stunningly powerful, compact novel in The Piano Tuner.
It’s a book of sounds: both of music and of the heart, from Rachmaninoff to Schubert, from Glenn Gould to Sviatoslav Richter, from untapped potential to unrequited love.
With a cadence and precision that bring to mind Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes, and Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country, this short novel may be a portrait of the artist as a “failure,” but it also describes a pursuit of the ultimate beauty in music and in love.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date:02/03/2023
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- ISBN:9781956763416
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication Date:02/03/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781956763416