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The pianist: the extraordinary true story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

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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 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.

Request Code : ZLIBIO2595073
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Year:
2003
Edition:
1st ed
Publisher:
Picador USA
Language:
English
Pages:
222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN 10:
0312311354
ISBN 13:
9780312311353
ISBN:
0312244150,0312263767,9781466837621,9780312244156,9780312311353,0312311354

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