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The pianist the bestselling book by wladyslaw szpilman. This is also a book about the power of music, which provides szpilman the determination to go on and literally saves him several times. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. Szpilman, a talented jewish pianist and composer, witnessed firsthand the horrors of the warsaw ghetto. The pianist is the name of the memoirs of wladyslaw szpilman, which were first published in 1946 in the polish language, but not until 1999 in the english language.
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