The Pianist
Publisher: Picador
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312244156
Subjects: True stories of endurance & survival; Second World War, 1939-1945; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Poland; Composers & Musicians - Classical Instrumentalists; Historical - Holocaust; History / Holocaust; General; Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish musicians; Jews; Personal narratives; Szpilman, Wadysaw; Warsaw
First sentence: I began my wartime career as a pianist in the Cafe Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the very heart of the Warsaw ghetto.