by Daniel Mason · Editions Plon · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782259196963
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«L'Accordeur de piano» is the historical novel by Daniel Mason, published by Editions Plon in paperback (367 pages, in French).
In 1886, the British War Office sends piano tuner Edgar Drake to Burma to repair an Erard grand piano belonging to an eccentric military surgeon. The journey between Europe, the Red Sea, India and Burma brings him into contact with soldiers, mystics and bandits and leads him to a river fort where a mysterious and dangerous world awaits.
The work was originally published in English as «The Piano Tuner» in September 2002; this French edition appeared on 17 April 2003.
For readers of historical and travel fiction and for book clubs; the setting of colonial Burma and the protagonist's craft are its focal points.
Daniel Mason is an American novelist and physician. He is the author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country and North Woods.
