WLADYLLAW SZPILMAN

'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

Lhistoire dun pianiste de grand talent qui sera sauvé par un " juste " allemand en plein cœur du ghetto de Varsovie.Au moment où Radio Pologne est réduite au silence, un jeune pianiste talentueux dor

Estas memorias relatan cómo sobrevivió a la destrucción de la comunidad judía de Polonia.

Varsovie, 1939 : Wladyslaw Szpilman, jeune et brillant pianiste dorigine juive, plonge dans les ténèbres. Six ans plus tard, à la différence de tant dautres, il est encore là. Il a tout perdu : sa fa

The powerful and bestselling memoir that inspired the Oscar and BAFTA-winning film.A book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first timeDaily TelegraphFirst published in 1946, The Pianist is the unforgettable memoir of a young Polish-Jewish pianist who survived the Second World War against all odds. This is a book that takes us as close as we are ever likely to travel to the day-to-day reality of living through terror (Sunday Times), an indelible reminder of the horrors of war and the astonishing endurance of the human spirit. 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 encyclopaediaIndependent on SundayWe 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 - rivetingObserverA book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first timeDaily Telegraph

Wladislaw Szpilman va néixer lany 1911 en el si duna família jueva. Va estudiar piano al Conservatori de Varsòvia i a lAcadèmia dArts de Berlín. Traballava per la Ràdio Nacional de Polònia quan les t