Wladyslaw Szpilman

The Pianist (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize-the Palme d'Or.

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466837621
• Artikelnr.: 39413777

Autorenporträt

Wladyslaw Szpilman; Translated by Anthea Bell