Sara T. reviewed on 9/25/2006 + 10 more book reviews

"On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp Minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside-so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw; that day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to astonishing human endurace and healing through compassion."

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