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Tuszynska, Agata.
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Gran, Wiera.
Szpilman, Władysław.
Women singers -- Poland -- Biography.
Actors and actresses -- Poland -- Biography.
Pianists -- Poland -- Biography.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography.
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Tuszynska, Agata.
Gran, Wiera.
Szpilman, Władysław.
Women singers -- Poland -- Biography.
Actors and actresses -- Poland -- Biography.
Pianists -- Poland -- Biography.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography.
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Vera
Gran
: the accused / Agata Tuszynska ; translated by Charles Ruas from the French of Isabelle Janns-Kalinowski.
by
Tuszynska, Agata.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Call #:
940.5318 T965v
Subjects
Gran
, Wiera.
Szpilman, Władysław.
Women singers -- Poland -- Biography.
Actors and actresses -- Poland -- Biography.
Pianists -- Poland -- Biography.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780307269126
0307269124
Uniform title:
Oskarzona Wiera
Gran
. English English.
Edition:
First American edition.
Description:
xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
English translated from the French translated from the original Polish.
Contents:
She picked up the receiver but didn't speak -- She had promised me her dress -- It was a massive building -- What is the taste of hunger? -- She left the Jewish quarter on August 2, 1942 -- You were working with the Gestapo! -- "I can tell you a few things" -- The codes of survival inside the ghetto and on the outside -- "In the above deposition, I have told only the truth" -- She never called him "my pianist" -- "The Jews dreamed of having their own Mata Hari" -- To the Ministry of Public Security -- The train from Marseille pulled into the Gare de Lyon -- They threatened to attend the performance wearing the striped pajamas of the camps -- It's the last letter -- She's happy when I bring records of her singing -- It was to Lailly-en-Val, in the vicinity of Orlǎns -- December 12, 2007: the burial place.
Summary:
The extraordinary, controversial story of
Vera
Gran
, and her piano accompanist, Wladyslaw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film The Pianist.
Vera
Gran
was a beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star: sensual contralto, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto, but afterwards accused of collaborating with the Nazis. An explosive, resonant portrait of lives lived inside a nightmare time, exploring the larger, more profound question of the nature of collaboration, of the price of survival, and of the long, treacherous shadow cast in its aftermath.
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