The Accidental Reader Book ReviewsThe pianist is an amazingly well written book by a Jew survivor of WW2. Szpilman starts telling us about his life a few months before the German Invasion in Poland in 1939 and he cuts quick to the chase. Unlike, any other autobiographies based on this particular era...
bookshelves: re-read, summer-2010, play-dramatisation, nonfiction, wwii, true-grime, racism, music, holocaust-genocide, autobiography-memoir, polish-root, published-1999 Recommended for: Saturday Play Radio 4 listeners Read on July 01, 2010 A wonderful chance to listen to the play - thankee BBC...
A true account of a truer tragedy of pain and sorrow time can never ease. I've watched the movie lotsa times and I'm sure I'd read this again in the future, but the same pang of pain still persists and will persist until the world has learned that war is never the means to an end.Watching The Pianis...
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a 28 year old Jewish man when Germany invaded Poland and subsequently turned part of Warsaw into a Jewish ghetto. Szpilman was a concert pianist and composer and for a long time his work as a pianist in café’s in Warsaw was the only income his family had.Until the summer of 1...
I've read a lot about World War II, but I'd never fully grasped the complete destruction, the utter devastation of the city of Warsaw. Hitler was like a bratty child with a toy he'd rather destroy than share with anyone else. When he knew he was going to lose the war, he ordered that Warsaw be reduc...
This book reminds me strongly of Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II. It presents two different, yet similar, prespectives on WW II in Poland.
A wonderful chance to listen to the play - thankee BBC! The details:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00826yn/Saturday_Play_The_Pianist/The radio drama production of this 5* performance from Szpilman's novel, transferred from the 2007 Manchester International Festival. A duet for piano and voice...
So much better than the movie, Szpilman's account of survival is harrowing in an unadorned fashion that seems almost detached, and is all the more horrible for it. Polanski's film version is pretty faithful to the text, perhaps with the exception of some of the chronology, so what I found most enli...
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