02309cam a2200325 4500 753549423 TxAuBib 20230406120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781666631173 1666631175 4575b328-1760-4996-bc96-58ab203f2569 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9451830 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kuo, Chiang-Sheng. The Piano Tuner [Libby]. Dreamscape Media, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 81MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 81MB. Fiction. Literature. Romance. 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. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-05 20:00:03. Goldblatt, Howard. Lin, Sylvia Li-chun. Chien, Fernando. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4575b328-1760-4996-bc96-58ab203f2569&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4575b328-1760-4996-bc96-58ab203f2569&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)