by Władysław Szpilman · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753817193
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The Pianist is Władysław Szpilman's miraculous survival account in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. From being a celebrated radio pianist to hiding in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, Szpilman's memoir is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. The book provides an understated and riveting intimacy regarding the horrifying progress of events between 1939 and 1945.
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.
