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The “striking” holocaust memoir that that inspired the Oscar-winning film “conveys with exceptional immediacy... the author's desperate fight for survival” (Kirkus Reviews).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.“Szpilman's memoir of life in the Warsaw ghetto is remarkable not only for the heroism of its protagonists but for the author's lack of bitterness, even optimism, in recounting the events.” —Library Journal“Employing language that has more in common with the understatement of Primo Levi than with the moral urgency of Elie Wiesel, Szpilman is a remarkably lucid observer and c

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Author

Szpilman, Władysław;Hosenfeld, Wilm

Publisher

New York: Picador USA

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312244156

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.24 / 5 (101 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14