Paperback, 224 pages
English language
Published Dec. 20, 2002 by Picador.
The Pianist
The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
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
- Biography & Autobiography
- Biography / Autobiography
- Biography/Autobiography
- Historical - Holocaust
- Personal Memoirs
- History / Holocaust
- Composers & Musicians - General
- Military
- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish musicians
- Jews
- Personal narratives
- Poland
- Warsaw