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The Piano Tuner

The Piano Tuner

Goldblatt, Howard
Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun
Kuo, Chiang-Sheng

Hardcover

RomanceGeneral Fiction

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ISBN10: 1956763414
ISBN13: 9781956763416
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: Jan 3 2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.35
Language: English
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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