{"product_id":"9781956763416-the-piano-tuner-a-novel","title":"Kuo Chiang - Sheng - The Piano Tuner A Novel - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Piano Tuner A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Kuo Chiang - Sheng\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781956763416\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 168 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/3\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Fiction In Translation","brand":"Kuo Chiang - Sheng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626877526321,"sku":"IN-G-9781956763416","price":20.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781956763416.jpg?v=1724954062","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781956763416-the-piano-tuner-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}