Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- The Piano Tuner (2002)
- A Far Country (2007)
- The Winter Soldier (2018)
Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order
- Death of the Pugilist (2008)
Short Story Collections In Publication Order
- A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth (2020)
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Daniel Mason Books Overview
The Piano Tuner
‘The Shan Hills,’ Edgar repeated and stared past the temples that stood like soldiers in formation to the mountains, which rose abruptly from the plain and seemed to hover in the sky. He thought of a river that ran through those hills, and how somewhere, hidden in the darkness, a man waited who perhaps stared out at the same sky. Who had yet to know his name. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. And, ultimately, whether he will ever be able to return home unchanged to the woman who awaits him there…
Sensuous and lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, The Piano Tuner is a hypnotic tale of myth, romance and self discovery. It is an unforgettable and haunting novel.
A Far Country
From the best selling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning new novel about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother. Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, fourteen year old Isabel was born with the gift and curse of seeing farther. When drought and war grip the backlands, her brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming city in the south. Soon Isabel must follow, forsaking the only home she s ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with her brother again. But when she arrives, she discovers that Isaias has disappeared. Weeks and then months pass, until one day, armed only with her unshakable hope, she descends into the chaos of the city to find him. Told with astonishing empathy, and strikingly visual, the story of Isabel s quest her dignity and determination, her deeply spiritual world is a universal tale about the bonds of family and a sister s love for her brother, about journeys and longing, survival and true heroism.A tour de force of great emotional and narrative power.
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