He has written a seductive and lyrical novel that probes the brutalities and compromises of colonization, even as it celebrates the elusive powers of music and the imagination.įorty-one-year-old Edgar Drake seems an unlikely protagonist for a bildungsroman. ( From the publisher.)Ĭonfidently weaving historical fact together with his own imaginative constructions, Mr. Currently, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Daniel has also published a short story in Harper's, on the life of the artist Arthur Bispo de Rosario. A Far Country, his second novel, was published in 2007. His first novel, The Piano Tuner, published in 2002, was a national bestseller and has since been published in 27 countries. He studied Biology at Harvard, and Medicine at the University of California, in San Francisco.
Sensuous, lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, this is a hypnotic tale of myth, romance, and self-discovery: an unforgettable novel. And at the doctor’s fort on a remote Burmese river, Edgar encounters a world more mysterious and dangerous than he ever could have imagined. On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into Burma, Edgar meets soldiers, mystics, bandits, and tale-spinners, as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the surgeon-major.
The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods-poetry, medicine, and now music-have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.
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