L'accordatore di piano
by Daniel Mason
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1886, autunno. L'accordatore di piano Edgar Drake riceve una strana richiesta dal Ministero della Guerra britannico: deve lasciare sua moglie e la sua tranquilla vita londinese per trasferirsi nella giungla birmana e accordare un raro esemplare di pianoforte Erard. Lo strumento appartiene al colonnello medico Carroll, comandante dai metodi poco ortodossi di un avamposto dell'esercito inglese in una zona sperduta e ostile della Birmania. Nel suo viaggio attraverso l'Europa, il Mar Rosso e l'India, Edgar Drake incontra strani e coloriti personaggi. Per Publishers Weekly il romanzo ricorda al tempo stesso Conrad, Memorie di una geisha e Il paziente inglese.
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Piano technicians, British, Fiction, History, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Burma, Shan states, paino tuner, Fiction, historicalPlaces
Burma, London, Shan statesTimes
19th century, 1886-onwardsShowing 10 featured editions. View all 25 editions?
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"In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods - poetry, medicine, and now music - have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors.".
"On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into Burma, Edgar meets soldiers, mystics, bandits, and talespinners, as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the surgeon-major. And at the doctor's fort on a remote Burmese river, Edgar encounters a world more mysterious and dangerous than he ever could have imagined."--BOOK JACKET.
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