The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Jenny in Reading Group

Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, ‘The Piano Teacher’ is a combination of ‘Tenko’ meets ‘The Remains of the Day’. Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning! In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese, with terrible consequences for both of them, and for members of their fragile community who will betray each other in the darkest days of the war.

Ten years later, Claire Pendleton lands in Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as their daughter’s piano teacher. A provincial English newlywed, Claire is seduced by the colony’s heady social life. She soon begins an affair!only to discover that her lover’s enigmatic demeanour hides a devastating past.

As the threads of this compelling and engrossing novel intertwine and converge, a landscape of impossible choices emerges — between love and safety, courage and survival, the present and above all, the past.

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One Response to “The Piano Teacher”

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    30. Jul, 2009

    I highly recommend this book that is filled with detailed and engaging characters and historical events, The Piano Teacher holds the readers attention from the first page to the last.

    A Korean-American graduate of Harvard College now residing in Hong Kong with her husband and four children, Janice Y. K. Lee’s debut novel “The Piano Teacher” is a touching and thoughtful look at the way emotional and physical trials can shape character.

    Thanks for sharing your book review and insight on this good book – a must-read to music lovers, music and piano teachers, as well as all the other music enthusiasts who wish to have their lives be touched and be changed in some little ways. Please do posts more thoughts on the most effective piano teaching tips we have today.

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