Book description
T. E. Carhart, an American living in Paris, is intrigued by a piano
repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment. When he finally
gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier, he finds
himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled with dozens of
pianos. His love affair with this most magical of instruments and its
music is reawakened.
Packed with delicate cameos of Parisians and reflections on how
pianos work and their glorious history, The Piano Shop on the Left
Bank is an atmospheric and absorbing journey to an older way of life.
T. E. Carhart is an American who lives in Paris.
The Piano Shop on
the Left Bank
is his debut novel. His second book,
Across the Endless River
, was published in 2009.