The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
by Wladyslaw Szpilman, Wilm Hosenfeld, Anthea Bell
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Author: Anthea Bell, Wilm Hosenfeld, Wladyslaw SzpilmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 2000-05
ISBN: 0786224207
Number of pages: 241
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Book Reviews of The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
Book Review: FINALLY: TRUTH & OBJECTIVITY ON THE HOLOCAUST FOR POLES AND JEWS. GOOD POLES,JEWS,GERMANS,AS WELL AS, BAD - PERIOD!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Polish filmaker Roman Polanski who was born and raised in Poland by Catholic parents, was there to see what it was really like, unlike many others who were never there, but make ignorent anti-Polish judgements. It's funny how those who were actually there, like Wladislaw, tell a completely different story that the Hollywood/Media tells. Wladyslaw told the truth. Read the book, and see the movie. Get this book and movie to your schools and libraries - Please. This story has healing qualities that brings people together, and not apart.
Summary of The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
'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
Written immediately after the end of World War II, this morally complex Holocaust memoir is notable for its exact depiction of the grim details of life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. "Things you hardly noticed before took on enormous significance: a comfortable, solid armchair, the soothing look of a white-tiled stove," writes Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist for Polish radio when the Germans invaded. His mother's insistence on laying the table with clean linen for their midday meal, even as conditions for Jews worsened daily, makes palpable the Holocaust's abstract horror. Arbitrarily removed from the transport that took his family to certain death, Szpilman does not deny the "animal fear" that led him to seize this chance for escape, nor does he cheapen his emotions by belaboring them. Yet his cool prose contains plenty of biting rage, mostly buried in scathing asides (a Jewish doctor spared consignment to "the most wonderful of all gas chambers," for example). Szpilman found compassion in unlikely people, including a German officer who brought food and warm clothing to his hiding place during the war's last days. Extracts from the officer's wartime diary (added to this new edition), with their expressions of outrage at his fellow soldiers' behavior, remind us to be wary of general condemnation of any group. --Wendy Smith
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