"So much is packed into this compact and surprising novel: a complex story of genius, madness, and thwarted desire and, beyond that, a deep exploration of the tension between craft and the pursuit of fame. "An elegant novel, told with restraint and acute perceptions. 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. 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. Long hailed in Taiwan as a “writer’s writer,” Chiang-Sheng Kuo delivers a stunningly powerful, compact novel in The Piano Tuner. What betrayal and what heartbreak made him walk away from greatness? In his forties, he is balding and ugly, a loser by any standard. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light district to snow-clad New York.Īt the heart of the story is the nameless narrator, the piano tuner. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. 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 JinĪ widower grieving for his young wife.
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