logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
Władysław Szpilman
Birth date: December 05, 1911
Died: July 06, 2000
Władysław Szpilman's Books
Recently added on shelves
Władysław Szpilman's readers
Share this Author
Community Reviews
Alessandra
Alessandra rated it 10 years ago
Dura testimonianza di un pianista sopravvissuto alla Varsavia occupata dai nazisti, un uomo né troppo forte né troppo coraggioso, un uomo normale, come tutti, non un eroe.La parte finale, in cui è descritto come sia riuscito a resistere nascosto gli ultimi mesi prima della liberazione della città, è...
SakuraMorimoto
SakuraMorimoto rated it 11 years ago
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...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
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...
Book Talk
Book Talk rated it 12 years ago
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...
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it 12 years ago
An amazing story.
see community reviews
Need help?