'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

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

Biographies & Memoirs

Szpilman, Wladyslaw

Arts & Literature

Orion Publishing

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize―the Palme d'Or.
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.

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

Community & Culture

Picador

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize—the Palme d’Or. 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.

The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

orion#

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.

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition)

McArthur & Company

Septembre 1939 : Varsovie est écrasée sous les bombes allemandes. Avant d'être réduite au silence, la radio nationale réalise sa dernière émission. Les accords du "Nocturne en ut dièsemineur" de Chopin s'élèvent. L'interprète s'appelle Wladyslaw Szpilman. Il est juif. Pour lui, c'est une longue nuit qui commence... Quand, gelé et affamé, errant de cachette en cachette, il est à un pouce de la mort, apparaît le plus improbable des sauveteurs : un officier allemand, un Juste nommé Wilm Hosenfeld. Hanté par l'atrocité des crimes de son peuple, il protégera et sauvera le pianiste. Après avoir été directeur de la radio nationale polonaise, Wladyslaw Szpilman a eu une carrière internationale de compositeur et de pianiste. Il est mort à Varsovie en juillet 2000. Il aura fallu plus de cinquante ans pour que l'on redécouvre enfin ce texte étrangement distancié, à la fois sobre et émouvant.

Le Pianiste: L'Extraordinaire Destin D'UN Musicien Juif Dans Le Ghetto De Varsovie, 1939-1945 (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Presse Pocket

Le pianiste

Szpilman, Andrzej

Literary

EDTS RETROUVEES

Der Pianist. Mein wunderbares Überleben.

Ullstein Tb

Concertino

Arts & Photography

Music

Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

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