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🍃 'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron 🍃 A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS 'I LOVED it' Naomi Alderman 'LYRICAL and JOYFUL' Sarah Jessica Parker 'This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes' Guardian 'Very...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)—a “witty and gorgeous” (The Guardian) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods “Charming...

The 'spellbinding' American epic. 'Truly outstanding' Mail on Sunday 'This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason's genius' Washington Post 'Daniel Mason's latest novel is one of those rare books that truly deserves the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England...

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma...

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...

From the best-selling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning new audio 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...

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma...

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Edgar Drake, Klavierstimmer in London, erhält den Auftrag seitens der britischen Krone, vertreten durch das Kriegsministerium, im Dschungel von Birma den Erard-Flügel eines exzentrischen Militärarztes zu stimmen. Er willigt ein, und schon auf dem Weg nach Birma hört er abenteuerliche Geschichten über diesen charismatischen Militärarzt, der so eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Krieg spielt, daß er sich unentbehrlich gemacht hat und alles verlangen kann. Auch einen Flügel im Urwald und einen Klavierstimmer.

Lucius ist zweiundzwanzig Jahre alt und ein hochbegabter Medizinstudent in Wien, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbricht. In der Vorstellung, an ein gut ausgestattetes Lazarett zu kommen, meldet er sich freiwillig. Tatsächlich landet er im eisigen Winter 1914 in einem abgelegenen Dorf in den Karpaten, in einer zum Behelfshospital umfunktionierten Kirche. Allein mit einer rätselhaften, jungen Nonne namens Margarete, muss er die schwer Verletzten versorgen, er, der noch nie ein Skalpell geführt hat. Margarete bringt ihm alles bei und als sie sich verlieben, auch das.