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Title: The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wadysaw Szpilman, Anthea Bell, Andrzej Szpilman, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Wilm Hosenfeld ISBN: 0-312-31135-4 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (55 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "Powerful story of survival"
Comment: This novel is a sad account of how human life was not valued by people in this time period. The Pianist is a survival story of a Jewish man living in Poland with his family during World War II. This true story is an easy and knowledgeable book to read. People, when they read this book can follow and understand the main character, Wladyslaw Szpilman. This man goes through so much you find yourself sitting and reading the book thinking how can he be surviving through all of this pain and drama and still be alive and willing to fight. I read this book after I saw the film that was made last year. My advice to people is to read the novel first then see the movie because the book has so much more emotion involved within it. Even though the movie to my belief does the book justice.
Even if the story is not to your liking there are other interesting facts inside the book such as exerts of Captain Wilm Hosenfield's diary and an introduction from Wladyslaw Szpilman's son talking about his father. This book is a must read by any person who is interested in the holocaust.
Rating: 5
Summary: poignant, yet spiritually uplifting
Comment: i cried while reading this book. i watched the movie as well and i could not stop crying. the poignancy just doesnt wear off, and the warmth of human love is so compelling and heart wrenching. It is spiritually uplifting to know that, no matter how tough the times and brutal the people, there will always be an angel somewhere who is blessed with compassion and love, as well as moral courage.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing Holocaust Memoir
Comment: Although this memoir of the Holocaust isn't as well-known as 'The Diary of Anne Frank', Wladyslaw Szpilman's 'The Pianist' deserves to be recognized as a vital record of Nazi atrocities during WWII. Written immediately after that conflict, the style is surreal, and not always completely chronological ' it is very much a 'stream of consciousness' narrative of what Szpilman remembers about the horrors that took place in his home city of Warsaw: the uncertainty in September of 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland; the Warsaw Ghetto, and the strange sense of normalcy that its inhabitants created for over two years; Szpilman mysteriously pulled out of line while the rest of his family boarded a train to certain death; and his survival outside of the Ghetto to the end of the war. It's hard to convey the emotions of the book, both from the author and from the reader: as in other literature of this topic, the savagery and transcendence of individuals boggles the mind. For every Wilm Hosenfeld, the German officer who probably saved Szpilman's life as he hid out in abandoned buildings, there's a collaborator, a Nazi, or Ukrainian who seems to delight in making others suffer. This edition of the book contains a foreward by Szpilman's son, extracts from Hosenfeld's diary (fascinating and poignant, considering his eventual fate in the Soviet Union), and an afterward by Wolf Biermann (with the startling fact that Szpilman had to say Hosenfeld was Austrian in the original edition, as apparently Germans in Cold War Poland couldn't have done anything good during the war!). I think, that in this day and age, with the resources available, more historical information could have been included: what exactly did happen to Szpilman's family? What about his later family life? What did he think about the post-war world? Minor quibbles, and they certainly did not impact my appreciation of the book.
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Title:The Pianist (Music from the Motion Picture) ASIN: B00007E8SQ Publisher: Sony Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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Title:The Pianist: Original Recordings by Wladyslaw Szpilman ASIN: B00007KFRG Publisher: Brentwood Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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Title: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski, Klara Glowczewska ISBN: 0802135021 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:The Original Recordings of the Pianist ASIN: B00006JO9R Publisher: Sony Int'l Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.49 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.49 |
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Title: The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir by Roma Ligocka, Iris Von Fickenstein, Margot Bettauer Dembo, Iris Finckenstein ISBN: 0312287941 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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