In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surge...

In Daniel Mason's lyrical novel, a young girl with prophetic powers leaves her village and goes searching for her brother in the teeming chaos of the country's major city. Mason writes with emotional and spiritual force, and his haunt...