| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 40 min.)) : digital |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Fernando Chien. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Added Author |
Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
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Guo, Qiangsheng, 1964-
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Chien, Fernando, narrator.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781666631173 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666631175 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT15614404 |
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