The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave
his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard
grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox
peacemaking methods—poetry, medicine, and now music—have brought a tentative quiet to the
southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors.
On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into Burma, Edgar meets soldiers,
mystics, bandits, and tale-spinners, as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the
surgeon-major. And at the doctor’s fort on a remote Burmese river, Edgar encounters a
world more mysterious and dangerous than he ever could have imagined.
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