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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.
Nákup knihy
The piano tuner, Daniel Mason
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2003
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- Titul
- The piano tuner
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Daniel Mason
- Vydavatel
- Vintage Books
- Rok vydání
- 2003
- Vazba
- měkká
- ISBN10
- 1400030382
- ISBN13
- 9781400030385
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Historické téma, Cestování, Hudební tématika, Láska, Války, Americká literatura, Anglie, 19. století, Společenské romány, Velká Británie, Asie, Kultura, Cesta, Klavír, piano, Kolonialismus, Hudební nástroje, Džungle, Výpravy a expedice, Kolonie, Kolonizace, osidlování, Roveň, Myanmar, Exotika, Britské impérium
- První vydání
- 2002
- Původní název
- The Piano Tuner
- Hodnocení
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.