Piano Tuner

Daniel Mason is a physician and author of the novels The Piano Tuner and North Woods. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and adapted for opera and theatre. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in the humanities and medicine. He lives in the Bay Area with his family.

Engrossing ... the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic The Times Remarkable ... a novel that immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor -- Michiko Kakutani New York Times A virtuoso tale, cast in the Burmese colonial wars of the 1880s ... Mason [adds] a depth of quirky historical knowledge and a feel for the brutal politics of colonialism, to create a complex and subtly imagined adventure ... with echoes of other books: Heart of Darkness, of course, and A Handful of Dust ... a highly dextrous and involving performance Observer Intriguing and alluring ... those strange images of Europe meeting the east, of the east engulfing Europe, linger like a haunting tune Guardian An ambitious, adventuresome, highly unusual first novel that offers pleasures too rarely encountered in contemporary American literary fiction ... [Mason is] a gifted, original and courageous writer Washington Post Luminous ... Mason's writing achieves that kind of reverie in which every vision, tone, flavor and sensation is magnified Los Angeles Times