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008			181025s20182018nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781681372099
050	0	0	_aPQ4829.A515 _bB3513 2018
082	1		_aFIC MAL _2
100	1		_aMalaparte, Curzio _d(, 1898 - 1957)
245	1	4	_aThe Kremlin ball : _bmaterial for a novel _c/ Curzio Malaparte
300			_a223 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	0		_aNew York Review Books classics
520			_aThe book is set at the end of the 1920s, when the Great Terror may have been nothing more than a twinkle in Stalin's eye, but when the revolution was accompanied by a growing sense of doom. In Malaparte's vision it is from his nightly opera box, rather than the Kremlin, that Stalin surveys Soviet high society, its scandals and amours and intrigues among beauties and bureaucrats, including the legendary ballerina Marina Semyonova and Olga Kameneva, a sister of the exiled Trotsky, who though a powerful politician is so consumed by dread that everywhere she goes she gives off the smell of rotting meat. This extraordinary court chronicle of Communist life (for which Malaparte also contemplated the title God Is a Killer) was published posthumously and appears now in English for the first time.
546			_aTranslated from the Italian to English.
650		4	_aSocial classes _z-Soviet Union _x-Fiction
651		4	_aMoscow (Russia) _v--Fiction
651		4	_aSoviet Union _x-Social life and customs _y-1917 - 1970 _x-Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
700	1		_aMcPhee, Jenny
942			_cMO
999			_c255912 _d255912