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'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than from several volumes of the average encyclopaedia' Independent on Sunday 'We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close¿riveting' Observer 'The images drawn are unusually sharp and clear¿but its moral tone is even more striking: Szpilman refuses to make a hero or a demon out of anyone' Literary Review
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The Pianist, Władysław Szpilman
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- The Pianist
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Władysław Szpilman
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 222
- ISBN10
- 0753817195
- ISBN13
- 9780753817193
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Music Theme, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Military History, Military Fiction, Wars, World War II, Memories, Adapted for Film, Jews, Holocaust, Escape, Nazism, Polish literature, Survival, Based on True Events, Piano, Persecution of Jews, Starvation, Ghetto, Jewish Ghettos, Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1943)
- First published
- 1946
- Original title
- Pianista
- Rating
- 4.65 out of 5
- Description
- 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than from several volumes of the average encyclopaedia' Independent on Sunday 'We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close¿riveting' Observer 'The images drawn are unusually sharp and clear¿but its moral tone is even more striking: Szpilman refuses to make a hero or a demon out of anyone' Literary Review