The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szipllman

Author:Wladyslaw Szipllman [Szipllman, Wladyslaw]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312263768
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2012-09-10T09:29:36+00:00

The man did not understand. He looked enquiringly at her.

She pointed at us. 'Jews!'

He was surprised. 'So?' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Are those the first Jews you've ever seen?'

The woman smiled in some embarrassment, pressed close to her companion, and they went on their way in the direction of the market.

That afternoon I managed to borrow fifty zloty from one of the others. I spent it on bread and potatoes. I ate some of the bread and took the rest of it and the potatoes back to the ghetto. I did the first commercial deal of my life that evening. I had paid twenty zloty for the bread; I sold it for fifty in the ghetto. The potatoes had cost three zloty a kilo; I sold them for eighteen. I had enough to eat for the first time in ages, and a little working capital still in hand to make my purchases next day.

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