'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 horrifyin
The Pianist: The extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
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- Picador
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- Fiction
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