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Book Review of The Pianist

The Pianist
The Pianist
Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
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The powerful, bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds, alongside moving extracts from the diary of the German officer who saved his life. The writing is better than the movie as each act of horror becomes increasingly mind-numbing. It is hard to believe that he managed to survive.