{"product_id":"piano-maker","title":"Piano Maker","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePiano Maker\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist or Composer: \u003c\/b\u003eKurt Palka\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e9780771071287\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eMcClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReleased: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eVery light wear to disc. Case and artwork included but clearly used. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last. For readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Imposter Bride\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cellist of Sarajevo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSarah's Key\u003c\/i\u003e by Tatiana de Rosnay, and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Violin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life. \u003cbr\u003e The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Piano Maker | Kurt Palka | Paperback | 9780771071287 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks H 1749485","offer_id":48858975371416,"sku":"1749485","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81nN-ziFgVL.jpg?v=1775664356","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/piano-maker","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}