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Children and Fish Don't Talk (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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In the winter of 1964, three weeks after defecting from Poland and
the night after playing a flashy holiday performance with the
Rockettes at Radio City, Leshek Zavistovski was arrested and faced
deportation to a gulag. His troubles started, however, long before
he was a fugitive cellist behind bars. As a four-year-old child he
was abandoned in a remote Polish village, kidnapped, and swept into
the advancing Red Army. Thus his perils began. "Children and Fish
Don't Talk" is more than Leshek's dramatic story. He recounts in
thrilling detail his father's defiance against the Nazis in the
Warsaw Uprising, the ghastly deeds of Cossacks and the Soviet KGB,
the hilarious antics of a foreigner at the height of McCarthyism,
the vibrant world of the Metropolitan Opera in the 1960s, his
elderly mother's foxy attempt to crush the Iron Curtain with
homemade posters and glue, and numerous encounters with Polish
sausage. It is a breathtaking tale of survival, taking readers from
the poverty of post-war Poland to the lavish dinner tables of
America's rich and famous, an adventure as harrowing as it is
funny. And that's because it's true. Cellist and sculptor Leshek
Zavistovski was born in Warsaw, Poland on the eve of World War II
and became the youngest member of the Warsaw National Philharmonic
and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Monique Zavistovski is a
filmmaker raised on the edge of the Sleepy Hollow woods. Her work
has won awards worldwide, including at Sundance and the Emmys.
Fulbright scholar and violinist Toni Rapport Zavistovski recorded
for Warsaw Radio with W adys aw Szpilman, the subject of Roman
Polanski's Oscar-winning film "The Pianist," and was Assistant
Principal Violin of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Index,
Glossary, Bibliography.
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