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Published by Picador, 2003
ISBN 10: 0312311354ISBN 13: 9780312311353
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Very minor general wear. 2003 Trade Paperback. 222 pp. With extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld. The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize?the Palme d'Or. On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside?so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.
Published by Picador USA, 1999
ISBN 10: 0312244150ISBN 13: 9780312244156
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 2nd print. NOT an ex library book. 222 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.