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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 Paperback - 2002

by Wladyslaw Szpilman; Wadysaw Szpilman


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Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the "Los Angeles Times," "The Pianist "is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody ("Son of Sam"). "The Pianist" won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize--the Palme d'Or.
On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside--so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, "The Pianist "is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.

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I began my wartime career as a pianist in the Cafe Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the very heart of the Warsaw ghetto.

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  • Title The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
  • Author Wladyslaw Szpilman; Wadysaw Szpilman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date December 20, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312311353 / 0312311354
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.54 x 0.57 in (20.88 x 14.07 x 1.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Warsaw (Poland), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland -
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Wladyslaw Szpilman was born in 1911. He studied the piano at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1945 to 1963, he was Director of Music at Polish Radio, and he also pursued a career as a concert pianist and composer for many years. He lives in Warsaw.
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