{"product_id":"the-piano-tuner-9781956763416","title":"The Piano Tuner","description":"\u003cb\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 Jin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Long hailed in Taiwan as a \"writer's writer,\" Chiang-Sheng Kuo delivers a stunningly powerful, compact novel in \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Tuner\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, Kazuo Ishiguro's \u003ci\u003eNocturnes\u003c\/i\u003e, and Yasunari Kawabata's \u003ci\u003eSnow Country\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956763416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.39d","brand":"Chiang-Sheng Kuo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42496217612469,"sku":"9781956763416","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9c3c9488-0539-4c45-b1f6-20d8fd8c81b6.jpg?v=1667922140","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-piano-tuner-9781956763416","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}