description: The Pianist is a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman in which he describes his life in Warsaw in occupied Poland during World War II. After being forced with his family to live in the Warsaw Ghetto, Szpilman manages to avoid deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, and from his hiding places around the city witnesses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising (the rebellion by the Polish resistance) the following year. He survives in the ruined city with the help of friends and strangers, including Wilm Hosenfeld, a German army captain who admires his piano playing.
language: English
title: The Pianist
titlecomplete: The Pianist
characters: Władysław Szpilman
genres: Classics, Historical, History, World War II, Poland, Holocaust, War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 76793
places: Poland, Warsaw
series: Ekranlaşdırılmış əsərlər
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Picador