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The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] - Bookshop Apocalypse
The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] - Bookshop Apocalypse
The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] - Bookshop Apocalypse
The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] - Bookshop Apocalypse

The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] • 2000

The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [2000] PICADOR

Book is excellent; like new with minor wear / subtle tanning to pages. 

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.