This book was good but more descriptive in some of the violent events than most of the holocaust books I’ve read. It was difficult to read at times. The story is amazing and I feel like the movie did a good job with it also. I really liked that the end had journal excerpts from the nazi soldier that rescued Wladyslaw. It’s a perspective we don’t often get to read.

Have you seen the movie with Adrian Brody.

A while back I added several book that I have seen the movie to my TBR. I wanted to see if reading a book after watching the movie affected the book the same as watching a movie after reading the book. Well I never read those books I added. This is one.

This is a true story about a Jewish pianists in Warsaw during WWII. While reading this I was struck with how unique each individual's story of Nazi persecution is. Though there are many similarities, everyone's story is very unique. Szpilman humility shines as he downplays his role in the underground resistance and the original title was Death of a City. The most amazing fact, he wrote his account in 1946, when the war was still fresh, and this book shows no hatred or animosity towards Germans or even the Nazi. Sadly, the Russian's then banned the book, so it was lost until the son rereleased the story.

Like all of these stories, it is an amazing story of perseverance and survival as he avoids being sent to a camp and is in hiding, escaping detection on multiple occasions.

I listened to the version with a forward by Szpilman's son and then exerts from the diary of the German solider who helped saved Szpilman's life, which is truly amazing.

very good, very powerful and in some ways similar to the road by formal McCarthy which is so messed up that real life circumstances brought almost apocalyptic conditions on people

Started reading it on the 8th of May, the end of WWII aniversary. I wish I didn't watch the movie before rading this book. So detailed, so horifying, so heartbreaking, so unbelievable. I can't believe they did not include his dream in the film when his brother Henryk told him 'We are now dead'. To be honest I almost cried. But really, I was on the edge throughout the whole book.
The greatest story told about WWII. I'm lost for words. The greatest book I read in a long time! It's not often I'm speechless, but I just can't help it. You will understand, when you read this.

Niesamowita historia Władysława Szpilmana, Polskiego kompozytora żydowskiego pochodzenia , który jako jeden z niewielu przeżył getto warszawskie. Pamiętnik niewiele różni się od filmu „Pianista”Romana Polańskiego, który swoje dzieło oparł właśnie na tej książce. Zdecydowanie warte przeczytania!