The Piano Tuner (42 page)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Mason received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard
College in 1998, and spent a year researching malaria on the Thai-Myanmar
border, where much of
The Piano Tuner
was written. He is currently a
medical student at the University of California at San
Francisco.

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Copyright © 2002 by Daniel Philippe Mason

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Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mason, Daniel Philippe.

    The piano tuner / Daniel Mason.—1st
ed.

        p.  cm.

    1. Piano technicians—Fiction. 2.
British—Burma—

  Fiction. 3.
Burma—Fiction. I. Title.

  
PS
3613.
A
816
P
53
2002

  813'.6—dc21

2002019069

eISBN: 978-1-4000-7771-7

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