The Pianist
Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
ISBN: 9780753814055
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 01 Mar 2003
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'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'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
ISBN: 9780753814055
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 01 Mar 2003
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'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'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
