{"product_id":"the-piano-tuner-a-novel","title":"The Piano Tuner - A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Jinand 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.and 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?and Long hailed in Taiwan as a “writer's writer,  Chiang-Sheng Kuo delivers a stunningly powerful,and compact novel inand 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'sand Death in Venice, Kazuo Ishiguro'sand Nocturnes, and Yasunari Kawabata'sand 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chiang-Sheng Kuo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44214301032508,"sku":"9781956763416","price":4840.75,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9781956763416.jpg?v=1776722716","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-piano-tuner-a-novel","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}