by Wladyslaw Szpilman · McArthur & Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781552781425
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«The Pianist» is the memoir by Władysław Szpilman, published by McArthur & Company in paperback (222 pages, in English).
In these memoirs, Władysław Szpilman, a Polish Jewish pianist, recounts his survival in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II: from the 1939 radio broadcasts to the ghetto, hiding places among ruins, and help from people such as a German officer who assisted him.
Originally published in Polish in 1946; this English edition includes the translation by Anthea Bell and extracts from Wilm Hosenfeld's diary. The work won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 2000.
Recommended for readers of historical memoirs and Holocaust testimonies; the work inspired the movie that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2002.
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.
