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Kaputt / Curzio Malaparte

By:

Malaparte, Curzio, . 1898-1957

Contributor(s):

Fologno, Cesare

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New York Review Books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review Books : 2005Description: 437 p. 21 cmSubject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian

DDC classification:

FIC MAL

Summary: Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	FIC MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		042302

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved.

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