Drake leaves behind his lovely wife and the dank, smoky, noisy, chilly conurbation of London and is transfixed and enchanted by the other worlds he passes through. The officer is allegedly an irreplaceable agent, assisting the British government in keeping the peace in the area and essential to the Empire's plans for dominating the region. He has assembled a story featuring the meek, middle-aged English piano tuner, Edgar Drake, who is abruptly sent to the jungles of Burma to tune the rare piano of a British military officer. Well, it's a debut novel by a very young writer (mid-20s), who was captivated by a dramatic and not well-known period of 19th-century South Asian history. It is an unforgettable and haunting novel.Lovely languague, good story, ending so-so Sensuous and lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, The Piano Tuner is a hypnotic tale of myth, romance and self-discovery. And, ultimately, whether he will ever be able to return home unchanged to the woman who awaits him there.
As his captivation grows, however, so do his questions: about the Doctor's true motives, about an enchanting and elusive woman who travels with him into the jungle, about why he came.
En route he is entranced by the Doctor's letters and by the shifting cast of tale-spinners, soldiers and thieves who cross his path. So begins the journey of the soft-spoken Edgar across Europe, the Red Sea, India, Burma, nd at last into the remote highlands of the Shan States. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British officer, whose success at making peace in the war-torn Shan States is legendary, but whose unorthodox methods have begun to attract suspicion. On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano.
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