The debut novel by 27-year-old physician and biologist Daniel Mason made its creator famous, but did not change his lifestyle. As before, Mason is much more interested in fighting malaria in the jungles of Indochina than in literature.
The debut novel by 27-year-old physician and biologist Daniel Mason made its creator famous, but did not change his lifestyle. As before, Mason is much more interested in fighting malaria in the jungles of Indochina than in literature. His book is somewhat autobiographical, although the action takes place at the end of the XNUMXth century. Quiet and serious London tuner Edgar Drake receives an unexpected offer from the War Department: he must go to the jungles of Burma to tune the piano for an eccentric physician who is trying to bring civilization to wild mountain peoples through music. This trip changes Drake: he discovers the grandeur and fullness of the world, simultaneously opening up to meet him. But, enriched by new experience, Drake is no longer able to return home, to his beloved wife and modest work … “The story of a journey into the jungle is existential, it rests on archetypes as ancient as the world,” says Mason himself. “The Adjuster is like the Odyssey: a book about journey and return, about love and death, about how our character changes under the influence of external circumstances.”
Book World, 416 p.