description: The Shan Hills, Edgar repeated and stared past the temples that stood like soldiers in formation to the mountains, which rose abruptly from the plain and seemed to hover in the sky. He thought of a river that ran through those hills, and how somewhere, hidden in the darkness, a man waited who perhaps stared out at the same sky. Who had yet to know his name. 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. 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. 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. 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. As his captivation grows, however, so do his questions: about the Doctor's true motives, about an enchanting and
language: English
title: The Piano Tuner Audio
titlecomplete: The Piano Tuner Audio
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Historical, Music, Asia, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 13133
places: Myanmar, Burma
publisher: MacMillan UK