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4987988The Pianisthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-pianist-9781466837621/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4018932/image.jpg?v=638551383072400000211274MXNPicadorInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>The striking holocaust memoir that that inspired the Oscar-winning film conveys with exceptional immediacy . . . the authors desperate fight for survival (<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>).</strong></p><p>On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopins Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outsideso loudly that he couldnt 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Szpilmans memoir of life in the Warsaw ghetto is remarkable not only for the heroism of its protagonists but for the authors lack of bitterness, even optimism, in recounting the events. <em>Library Journal</em></p><p>Employing language that has more in common with the understatement of Primo Levi than with the moral urgency of Elie Wiesel, Szpilman is a remarkably lucid observer and chronicler of how, while his family perished, he survived thanks to a combination of resourcefulness and chance. <em>Publishers Weekly</em></p><p>[Szpilmans] account is hair-raising beyond anything Hollywood could invent . . . an altogether unforgettable book. <em>The Daily Telegraph</em></p><p>[Szpilmans] shock and ensuing numbness become ours, so that acts of ordinary kindness or humanity take on an aura of miracle. <em>The Observer</em></p>...4277677The Pianist211274https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-pianist-9781466837621/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4018932/image.jpg?v=638551383072400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20009781466837621_W3siaWQiOiJlMDlhNDM5YS01NzEzLTRiNTAtYjBkZC05MTJjZWJkMDBlOWQiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI3NCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjYzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIxMSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDYtMDRUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781466837621_<p><strong>The memoir that inspired Roman Polanskis Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festivals most prestigious prizethe Palme dOr.</strong></p><p><strong>Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the <em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p>On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopins Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outsideso loudly that he couldnt 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.</p><p>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, <em>The Pianist</em> is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.</p>...(*_*)9781466837621_<p><strong>The striking holocaust memoir that that inspired the Oscar-winning film conveys with exceptional immediacy . . . the authors desperate fight for survival (<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>).</strong></p><p>On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopins Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outsideso loudly that he couldnt 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Szpilmans memoir of life in the Warsaw ghetto is remarkable not only for the heroism of its protagonists but for the authors lack of bitterness, even optimism, in recounting the events. <em>Library Journal</em></p><p>Employing language that has more in common with the understatement of Primo Levi than with the moral urgency of Elie Wiesel, Szpilman is a remarkably lucid observer and chronicler of how, while his family perished, he survived thanks to a combination of resourcefulness and chance. <em>Publishers Weekly</em></p><p>[Szpilmans] account is hair-raising beyond anything Hollywood could invent . . . an altogether unforgettable book. <em>The Daily Telegraph</em></p><p>[Szpilmans] shock and ensuing numbness become ours, so that acts of ordinary kindness or humanity take on an aura of miracle. <em>The Observer</em></p>...9781466837621_Picadorlibro_electonico_9781466837621_9781466837621Wladyslaw SzpilmanInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-be357cc7-ad4d-4e9f-b595-c849ce54f1cf.epub2000-09-02T00:00:00+00:00Picador