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The 75th Anniversary Edition of the memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, with a new introduction by Szpilman's son, Andrzej 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 in the immediate aftermath of the war, The Pianist conveys a shattering immediacy found in few books about that time and stands as a stunning testament to human endurance and healing through compassion. This edition includes a foreword by Andrzej Szpilman, extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld, and an epilogue by Wolf Biermann.
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PIANIST SEVENTYFIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, Władysław Szpilman
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- Released
- 2019
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Władysław Szpilman
- Publisher
- Macmillan USA
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1250249546
- ISBN13
- 9781250249548
- 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
- The 75th Anniversary Edition of the memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, with a new introduction by Szpilman's son, Andrzej 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 in the immediate aftermath of the war, The Pianist conveys a shattering immediacy found in few books about that time and stands as a stunning testament to human endurance and healing through compassion. This edition includes a foreword by Andrzej Szpilman, extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld, and an epilogue by Wolf Biermann.