Le Pianiste, Paperback Book, By: Wladyslaw Szpilman

The great texts of the twentieth century September 1939. While Warsaw was crushed by German bombs, the chords of Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor sounded on national radio. The performer is called Wladyslaw Szpilman. He is Jewish. For him, it's a long night that begins ... A long night whose outcome could have been death, without a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld - the most improbable of rescuers. Haunted by the atrocity of the Nazi crimes, he will protect and save the pianist. Died in 2000 in Warsaw, Wladyslaw Szpilman had an international career as a composer and pianist. It took more than fifty years for us to finally rediscover this text, sober and moving. A moving testimony from the cold and the horror. Annie Coppermann Lesachos Grand Prix des readers de ELLE - 2002