The Memoir of a Piano is hailed as the best work of Chiang-Sheng Kuo to this day by David Der-wei Wang, Chair Professor of Harvard University, as well as an excellent novel that is hard to come by in recent years in Taiwan. The novel intertwines music and soul, winding through the secluded soul and eros of a physical body. The leading character, a piano tuner, is infatuated with the emotional projection that he made when he was young. He burst out the deepest suppression inside his heart at the destination of his journey finding a soul piano, just like the piano music abruptly halting at climax. The words playing in the novel are as accurate and elegant as the musical notes, composing the cruelty of adoration and loneliness.