222 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 1999 by Picador USA.
A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
Subjects
- Szpilman, Władysław
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Personal narratives
- Jewish musicians -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography