Daniel Mason Books in Order

In 1886, London piano tuner Edgar Drake accepts a War Office assignment to repair an eccentric army surgeon's instrument in remote Burma. His journey draws him into an unfamiliar landscape and the tensions of British imperial rule.

Fourteen-year-old Isabel grows up in a village afflicted by drought and war, with an unusual ability to perceive distant things. When her brother Isaias leaves for the city, she follows in search of him.

Medical student Lucius enlists during World War I expecting organized battlefield medicine. Instead, he reaches a typhus-ravaged hospital in the Carpathians, where Sister Margarete must teach him surgery amid freezing conditions and the arrival of wounded soldiers.

Nine stories follow people confronting the mysteries of the natural world and their own lives. From a balloonist and a telegraph operator to a desperate mother and a bareknuckle fighter, discovery becomes entangled with survival and longing.

A house in the New England woods shelters generations of people, beginning with lovers fleeing a Puritan settlement. Their lives intersect with orchards, animals and hidden histories as the landscape preserves traces of its changing inhabitants.

Miles moves his family to Vermont, where his wife has taken a teaching post, hoping to finish his long neglected dissertation on Russian folklore. Eccentric neighbors and unsettling local legends complicate his efforts to understand marriage, parenthood and belonging.