Daniel Mason

A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal Maggie OFarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Masons geniusWashington PostA SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLANDDazzling . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat . . . Brave and original . . . intimate and epic, playful and serious GuardianIS HOME TO RUNAWAYS AND VISIONARIES, INSEPARABLE TWINS, A LOVELORN PAINTER, A DESPERATE MOTHER AND A RUTHLESS CON-MAN.It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single taleSunday TimesIT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD.North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readersThe Times

The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See). Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeons scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever. From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone."The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." Anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review

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 unshakeable hope, she descends into the chaos of the city to find him. Strikingly visual, told with astonishing empathy, 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.

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.

Actualmente los materiales y los procesos que se eligen en el diseño de un proyecto impreso dependen en gran medida de los plazos y los presupuestos a los que este deba ajustarse. Debido a esto, la industria de la impresion se ha estandarizado extremadamente y, si bien han aparecido gran numero de empresas capaces de ofrecer precios y plazos de entrega muy ajustados, la oferta de materiales, formatos y tecnicas de fabricacion y manipulacion parece haberse limitado en la misma medida. Esta coyuntura no favorece la expansion creativa e incluso resulta sumamente restrictiva a la hora de materializar una idea. Materiales y procesos de impresion pretende familiarizar a los diseñadores con los distintos soportes y tecnicas que es posible utilizar en la elaboracion de cualquier proyecto en el que intervenga la impresion. Casi todos los materiales y metodos de fabricacion que se describen aqui se han utilizado hasta ahora de un modo convencional, pero nunca se han analizado a fondo sus caracteristicas y su aplicacion en proyectos concretos. Ademas de dicho analisis, este libro incluye una seleccion de proyectos fundamentales cuya ejecucion demuestra una especial maestria en la aplicacion de estos conocimientos, lo que resultara de gran ayuda para la inspiracion de los diseñadores.

First published in 1952 this novel features Carl Zlinter, the Czech doctor, for whom the end of the war and his emigration to a new country signal a period of unexpected hope. But Carl is not what he seems, and his dark secret threatens to submerge his hopes for a better future.

From the bestselling author of "The Piano Tuner" comes a haunting new story, set in an unnamed country, about a young girl's journey in search of her brother. Told with extraordinary empathy, the story becomes a universal tale about the bonds of family.

Cuatro años después de la publicación de El afinador de pianos —notable éxito de ventas en castellano y ganador del Premio Euskadi de Plata 2004—, Daniel Mason vuelve a hacer gala de su gran talento

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.

Un libro para los amantes de las novelas de viajes y aventuras. En la época victoriana, un experto afinador de pianos inglés, Edgar Drake, es requerido por el ejército de su país para viajar a Birmania con el fin de reparar un piano en poder de un erudito comandante medico. Este extraño personaje ha logrado mantener, gracias a la musica, la paz en cierta region de aquella nacion. Drak descubrira un mundo mas oscuro y cautivador de lo que jamas hubiera podido imaginar.

"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.

From the bestselling author of "The Piano Tuner" comes a haunting new story, set in an unnamed country, about a young girl's journey in search of her brother. Told with extraordinary empathy, the story becomes a universal tale about the bonds of family.

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.

En plena época victoriana, el prestigioso y apacible afinador de pianos Edgar Drake, especializado en los delicadísimos Erard, es requerido por el ejército colonial británico para hacerse cargo de un ejemplar muy especial, que se halla en posesión del erudito comandante médico Anthony Carroll, quien apacigua a las tribus locales con su dominio de la música y la poesía. Carroll había exigido el preciado instrumento tiempo atrás como condición para permanecer en su puesto en el corazón de la selva birmana, y continuar así con su estratégica misión pacificadora.

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.

Londres, octobre 1886. Edgar Drake, accordeur de piano, reçoit une requête du ministère de la Guerre britannique : il doit quitter son épouse et son confort pour la Birmanie où un précieux piano à qu

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