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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0312311354
ISBN-13: 9780312311353
Jan 2003
Publisher: Picador USA
224 pages
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Edition: 2
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This memoir relates the story of a Polish Jew--a composer and pianist--who miraculously survived the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. In gruesome detail, Szpilman reveals his terrifying experiences of being confined to the city's vast ghetto, then seeing his family herded into boxcars and transported to the camps, and finally becoming a man on the run. Through a series of lucky breaks and his own will to survive and play the piano again, Szpilman managed to endure the incredible horrors and hardships to which he was subjected and come out alive. THE PIANIST was made into a critically acclaimed 2002 film by Roman Polansky.
| Size | | Length: | 224 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"THE PIANIST, Wladyslaw Szpilman's remarkable memoir of his survival in Warsaw between the years 1939 and 1945, is a significant contribution to the literature of remembrance, a document of lasting historical and human value. Unforgivably overlooked since its publication (in Polish) in 1946 and translated into English just now for the first time, the book is a relative rarity: an account of the Holocaust written in the immediate aftermath of the experience itself. It has all the rawness and specificity of horrors painfully and uncomprehendingly withstood and afterward just as uncomprehendingly--but necessarily--recorded. Writing this book would seem to have been a further act of survival by a man who performed more of them in six years than most human beings do in a lifetime."
Los Angeles Times - Michael Frank (01/16/2000)
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