The piano tuner : a novel
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Goldblatt, Howard, 1939- translator.
Lin, Sylvia Li-chun, translator.
Guo, Qiangsheng, 1964- Xun qin zhe.
Lin, Sylvia Li-chun, translator.
Guo, Qiangsheng, 1964- Xun qin zhe.
Published
New York : Arcade Publishing, [2023].
Edition
First English-language edition.
Status
McLean Branch - Adult
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Published
New York : Arcade Publishing, [2023].
Format
Book
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
"Winner of every major literary award in Taiwan, an elegiac and deceptively quiet novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts--and music. 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. 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? 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 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's Death in Venice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Nocturnes, and Yasunari Kawabata's 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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Guo, Q., Goldblatt, H., & Lin, S. L. (2023). The piano tuner: a novel (First English-language edition.). Arcade Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Guo, Qiangsheng, 1964-, Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun, Lin. 2023. The Piano Tuner: A Novel. Arcade Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Guo, Qiangsheng, 1964-, Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun, Lin. The Piano Tuner: A Novel Arcade Publishing, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Guo, Qiangsheng, Howard Goldblatt, and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. The Piano Tuner: A Novel First English-language edition., Arcade Publishing, 2023.
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