num_pages: 312
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.
language: English
title: The Piano Tuner
titlecomplete: The Piano Tuner
genres: Asia, Book Club, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel, Novels, Music, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 13133
places: Myanmar, Burma
publisher: Vintage