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"" " "" "" "" " ""Vivid and anguished . . . compulsivereading (Richard Overy Sunday Telegraph) "You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survivalof one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than fromseveral volumes of the average encyclopaedia (Gerald Jacobs Independent onSunday) We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifyingprogress of events, all conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailinessthat render them painfully close . . . riveting (Lisa Appignanesi Observer) This memoir of a Je pianist who survived the war in Warsaw is one of themost powerful accounts ever written (Sunday Tribune) A compelling, harrowing masterpiece (Independent) A book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifullywritten, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if forthe first time . . . His account is hair-raising, beyond anything Hollywoodcould invent . . . Everything that has been most horrific in life in20th-century Europe is encompassed in this exquisite memoir (Daily Telegraph) What really stays with the reader is the chilling, almost naive immediacy withwhich the story is told . . . The Pianist is an icy, nerveless butremarkably readable memoir that takes us as close as we are ever likely totravel to the day-to-day reality of living through terror (Sunday Times) The images drawn are unusually sharp and clear, but its moral tone is even morestriking: Szpilman refuses to make a hero or a demon out of anyone (LiteraryReview)" "" " "" "As a composer and pianist, valadislaw Spearman insisted on playing live on the radio before the Nazi occupation. In those days of white terror, he escaped the search of those wild animals and still lived in Je settlements in Poland. Here, even when all the things he loves have to give up, he still lives tenaciously. Finally wait until dawn "" The powerful and bestselling memoir ofa young Je pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Baftaand Oscar-winning film. "You can learn more about human naturefrom this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years inthe devastated city of Warsaw than from several volumes of the averageencyclopaedia Independent on Sunday "We are drawn in to share his surpriseand then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with anunderstated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close -riveting Observer "A book so fresh and vivid, soheartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tellus the story of horrendous events as if for the first time Daily Telegraph "" " " " " "" " " " " " " " " "" " " " ""  " " " | "|||||||||||||||||||
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