The Pianist

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  The Pianist is an amazing book! I read it at school some years ago and then we also saw the movie. The movie is faithful to the book, but i think that reading the pianist you can get messages that in the movie are not so evident. After reading this book, anybody would hate nazism and have sympathy f ... (continue)

  The Pianist is an amazing book! I read it at school some years ago and then we also saw the movie. The movie is faithful to the book, but i think that reading the pianist you can get messages that in the movie are not so evident. After reading this book, anybody would hate nazism and have sympathy for Jews .

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  Ilarietta93 said on Apr 12, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Compulsory reading

  Shocking and traumatic, this text reminds us of the trauma and catastrophe that was the Jewish experience in central Europe before, during and after the Second World War. Close to Primo Levi's texts for the value of a personal view, perhaps the most desperately sad thing about reading this book is t ... (continue)

  Shocking and traumatic, this text reminds us of the trauma and catastrophe that was the Jewish experience in central Europe before, during and after the Second World War. Close to Primo Levi's texts for the value of a personal view, perhaps the most desperately sad thing about reading this book is that we're reminded nothing really has changed. Genocides continue, whole cultures face the threat of extinction, and the dark side of our human nature seems resistant to all attempts at promoting any kind of universal filiality.

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  Ian Hodgson said on Apr 2, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Very moving, inspiring piece of work.

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  ButYouGotMySoul said on Mar 2, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  I like War, and specially the WWII. From F.4, I study history and fall in love with history. I read books on the WWII history, on Hitler and its army, and this time I read the history of a place suffering from the Hitler rule.
  I think most of us have watched the movie of the same name, this boo ... (continue)

  I like War, and specially the WWII. From F.4, I study history and fall in love with history. I read books on the WWII history, on Hitler and its army, and this time I read the history of a place suffering from the Hitler rule.
  I think most of us have watched the movie of the same name, this books bring us even more feelings on how the Jews, the Polish face the war. It's not easy, the story bring you through the years where Nazi occupy the land. How human being live and die in this special period on Earth. It's not a easy time to live, and it's not a easy days to read this book, if you are passion enough to feel like you are in war too.
  Anyway, this book is well-written, bring the time back to the 40s.

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  Billykomh said on Sep 10, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  sad story

  It is a sad story. I can not look at Germans the same way as before. It is also surprising human`s capability to cast cruelty to other people as long as they can find the justifiable cause. There are three highlights of this story: 1. the death of his family, 2. how he helped with the undergroun ... (continue)

  It is a sad story. I can not look at Germans the same way as before. It is also surprising human`s capability to cast cruelty to other people as long as they can find the justifiable cause. There are three highlights of this story: 1. the death of his family, 2. how he helped with the underground to fight back the Germans 3. his encounter of the emery and how his emery saved him near the end of the war. I think this book can be more moving if the writer can be more expressive. Unfortunately, it is not, it is only cold facts and his recalls of what happens during the war.

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  Mangafish said on Feb 23, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 224 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0753814056
• ISBN-13: 9780753814055
• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Pub date: Dec 31, 2002
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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