The Piano Tuner: A Novel

This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love & loss, broken dreams & 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 & 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 & ugly, a loser by any standard. But he was once a musical prodigy. What betrayal & 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 & of the heart, from Rachmaninoff to Schubert, from Glenn Gould to Sviatoslav Richter, from untapped...