The Piano Tuner: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 144 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781956763607
- Publisher:
- Arcade
- Date of Addition:
- 01/17/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Chiang-Sheng Kuo
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Romance, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Howard Goldblatt
- Translator:
- Sylvia Li-chun Lin