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A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
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- Titul
- The piano tuner
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Daniel Mason
- Vydavateľ
- Vintage Books
- Rok vydania
- 2003
- Väzba
- mäkká
- ISBN10
- 1400030382
- ISBN13
- 9781400030385
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Historické téma, Cestovanie, Hudobná tematika, Láska, Vojny, Americká literatúra, Spoločenské romány, 19. storočie, Anglicko, Veľká Británia, Ázia, Kultúra, Cesta, Hudobné nástroje, Klavier, piano, Kolonializmus, Výpravy a expedície, Džungľa, Kolónie, Kolonizácia, osídlenie, Roveň, Mjanmarsko, Britské impérium, Exotika
- Prvé vydanie
- 2002
- Pôvodný názov
- The Piano Tuner
- Hodnotenie
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotácia
- A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.