Kuo Chiang - Sheng
Kuo Chiang - Sheng - The Piano Tuner A Novel - Hardcover
Kuo Chiang - Sheng - The Piano Tuner A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: 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.
Title: The Piano Tuner A Novel
Author(s): Kuo Chiang - Sheng
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Barcode: 9781956763416
Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Date: 1/3/2023
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: 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.
Title: The Piano Tuner A Novel
Author(s): Kuo Chiang - Sheng
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Barcode: 9781956763416
Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Date: 1/3/2023
Category: Fiction In Translation
