{"product_id":"the-piano-maker-kurt-palka-9780771071287","title":"The Piano Maker","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kurt Palka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0771071280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780771071287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Kurt Palka","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926006595839,"sku":"9780771071287","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3647d742-7562-4898-9202-2b634a269975.jpg?v=1681080647","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-piano-maker-kurt-palka-9780771071287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}