- Piano technicians, British, Fiction, History
"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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Mason
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 357
- Publisher
- Círculo de Lectores, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions, Picador
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, French, Spanish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780330492690
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