Reviews
"Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people."- The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value."- The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible."- Washington Post Book World " The Pianist is a great book."- The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner."- Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more-a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling."- The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival."- Kirkus Reviews " The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. "- The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close."- The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. "- The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished."- The Sunday Telegraph, A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more--a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling., "Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people."-The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value."-The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible."-Washington Post Book World "The Pianistis a great book."-The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner."-Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure,The Pianistis even more-a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling."-The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid."-Publishers Weekly(starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival."-Kirkus Reviews "The Pianistis a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. "-The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close."-The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. "-The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished."-The Sunday Telegraph, "Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people."- The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value."-The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible."-Washington Post Book World "The Pianist is a great book."-The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner."-Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more-a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling."-The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival."-Kirkus Reviews "The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. "-The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close."-The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. "-The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished."-The Sunday Telegraph, It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently., The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book., Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished., "Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people." -- The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value." -- The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible." -- Washington Post Book World " The Pianist is a great book." -- The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner." -- Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more--a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling." -- The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. " -- The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close." -- The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. " -- The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished." -- The Sunday Telegraph, Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close., A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival.
