Chiang-Sheng Kuo

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The Piano TunerHardcover, 3 January 2023

The Piano Tuner
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Print Length
168 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Date Published
3 Jan 2023
ISBN-10
1956763414
ISBN-13
9781956763416

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.

Product Details

Author:
Chiang-Sheng Kuo
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
3 January 2023
Dimensions:
21.21 x 14 x 1.8 cm
ISBN-10:
1956763414
ISBN-13:
9781956763416
Language:
English
Pages:
168
Weight:
276.69 gm

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