During the Anglo-Burmese Wars of the 1880s, a London piano tuner named Edgar Drake is recruited to tune the piano for an army surgeon in Burma. What he finds when he gets there--about the surgeon, about Burma's political situation, and about himself--is a revelation both to the piano tuner and to the reader. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Daniel Mason es va llicenciar en biologia a la Universitat de Harvard l'any 1998 i va passar un any investigant la malària a la frontera entre Tailàndia i Myanmar. Ha estudiat medicina a la Universitat de Califòrnia, San Francisco.