WLADYLLAW SZPILMAN

'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than from several volumes of the average encyclopaedia' Independent on Sunday 'We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close...riveting' Observer 'The images drawn are unusually sharp and clear...but its moral tone is even more striking: Szpilman refuses to make a hero or a demon out of anyone' Literary Review

Estas memorias relatan cómo sobrevivió a la destrucción de la comunidad judía de Polonia.

Wladislaw Szpilman va néixer lany 1911 en el si duna família jueva. Va estudiar piano al Conservatori de Varsòvia i a lAcadèmia dArts de Berlín. Traballava per la Ràdio Nacional de Polònia quan les t