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Read The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason l Summary Study Guide - free. boxim. Free Piano Prices Guide New or Used Fair Market Value. THE PIANO TUNER. Daniel Mason, Author. Knopf $24 (p) ISBN Twenty-six-year-old Mason has penned a satisfying, if at times rather slow, debut historical novel. Edgar Drake lives a. “The Piano Tuner” () was Daniel Mason’s first novel. I don’t know how I missed it until now (I ADORED ’s “The Winter Soldier”) but I’m glad I finally got to it because it’s wonderful. In , Edgar Drake, the eponymous Piano Tuner, is been summoned to Burma to tune a rare piano owned by an enigmatic bltadwin.ru by:

Edgar Drake is a piano tuner, a specialist in Erards. He is very much at the centre of The Piano Tuner's plot. It is his story, his perceptions and reactions as life reveals itself to him that are described as he journeys to and then though British colonial Burma to the Shan states. There he undertakes to tune and repair a grand piano that somehow has found its way to a remote jungle outpost. Daniel Mason was born and raised in Northern bltadwin.ru studied biology at Harvard, and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His first novel, The Piano Tuner, published in , was a national bestseller and has since been published in 27 bltadwin.ru other works include A Far Country, The Winter Soldier, and A Registry of My Passage Upon Earth, and his writing has. THE PIANO TUNER. By Daniel Mason. pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $ LETTERS, military documents, official reports, stories told on a ship or a train or the back of a horse or in a bamboo.

“The Piano Tuner” () was Daniel Mason’s first novel. I don’t know how I missed it until now (I ADORED ’s “The Winter Soldier”) but I’m glad I finally got to it because it’s wonderful. In , Edgar Drake, the eponymous Piano Tuner, is been summoned to Burma to tune a rare piano owned by an enigmatic surgeon. Daniel Mason's debut novel, The Piano Tuner, is the mesmerizing story of Edgar Drake, commissioned by the British War Office in to travel to hostile Burma to repair a rare Erard grand piano vital to the Crown's strategic interests. Eccentric Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll has brokered peace with local warlords primarily through music, a free medical clinic, and the "powers" of common scientific instruments, much to the dismay of warmongering officers suspect of such unorthodox methods. Daniel Mason was born and raised in Northern California. He studied biology at Harvard, and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His first novel, The Piano Tuner, published in , was a national bestseller and has since been published in More about Daniel Mason.