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

Name: Pianist The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
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ISBN: 9780312263768

ISBN-10: 0312263767

ISBN-13: 9780312263768

Edition: N/A

Authors: Wladyslaw Szpilman

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/2/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English