{"product_id":"9781956763416","title":"The Piano Tuner : A Novel by Howard Goldblatt","description":"This 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 Jin ?  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.    ?\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313227215221,"sku":"9781956763416","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781956763416.jpg?v=1762826028","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781956763416","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}