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In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, repeatedly imprisoned. In his intervals of freedom, he had been dispatched as a journalist to the Eastern Front, and though many of his reports from the bloodlands of Poland and Ukraine were censored, his experiences there became the basis for his unclassifiable postwar masterpiece and international bestseller, \u003ci\u003eKaputt\u003c\/i\u003e. Now, returning to the one country that had always treated him well, the one country he had always loved, he was something of a star, albeit one that shines with a dusky and disturbing light.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The journal he kept while in Paris records a range of meetings with remarkable people-Jean Cocteau and a dourly unwelcoming Albert Camus among them-and is full of Malaparte's characteristically barbed reflections on the temper of the time. It is a perfect model of ambiguous reserve as well as humorous self-exposure. There is, for example, Malaparte's curious custom of sitting out at night and barking along with the neighborhood dogs-dogs, after all, were his only friends when in exile. 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The book begins in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip on the devastated city of Naples. The sometime Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is working with the Americans as a liaison officer. He looks after Colonel Jack Hamilton, \"a Christian gentleman . . . an American in the noblest sense of the word,\" who speaks French and cites the classics and holds his nose as the two men tour the squalid streets of a city in ruins where liberation is only another word for desperation. Veterans of the disbanded Italian army beg for work. A rare specimen from the city's famous aquarium is served up at a ceremonial dinner for high Allied officers. Prostitution is rampant. The smell of death is everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Subtle, cynical, evasive, manipulative, unnerving, always astonishing, Malaparte is a supreme artist of the unreliable, both the product and the prophet of a world gone rotten to the core.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733871042833,"sku":"NGR9781590176221","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50011350827281,"sku":"GOR005340476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50134073016593,"sku":"CIN1590176227G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50263581753617,"sku":"CIN1590176227VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51499908956433,"sku":"NIN9781590176221","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52835528212753,"sku":"GOR006543728","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1590176227.jpg?v=1751450337"},{"product_id":"kremlin-ball-book-curzio-malaparte-9781681372099","title":"The Kremlin Ball","description":"\u003cb\u003eA perverse and delicious tell-all view of the Soviet elite in the 1920s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of \u003ci\u003eThe Kremlin Ball\u003c\/i\u003e, which might be described as Proust in the corridors of Soviet power. Malaparte began this impertinent portrait of Russia's Marxist aristocracy while he was working on \u003ci\u003eThe Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, his story of American-occupied Naples, and after publishing \u003ci\u003eKaputt\u003c\/i\u003e, his depiction of Europe in the hands of the Axis, thinking of this book as a another \"picture of the truth\" and a third panel in a great composition depicting the decadence of twentieth-century Europe. The 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 legendary ballerina Marina Semyonova and Olga Kameneva, sister of the exiled Trotsky, who though a powerful politician is so consumed by dread that everywhere she goes she gives off a smell of rotting meat. Unfinished at the time of Malaparte's death, this extraordinary court chronicle of Communist life (for which Malaparte also contemplated the title \u003ci\u003eGod is a Killer\u003c\/i\u003e) was only published posthumously in Italy over fifty years after Malaparte's death and appears in English now for the first time ever.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735613841681,"sku":"NGR9781681372099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50011349713169,"sku":"GOR009417039","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50399379751185,"sku":"CIN1681372096A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50412665176337,"sku":"CIN1681372096G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107236802833,"sku":"CIN1681372096VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52780783829265,"sku":"GOR014619104","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1681372096.jpg?v=1750896367"},{"product_id":"kaputt-book-curzio-malaparte-9780330308021","title":"Kaputt","description":"In 1941 Malaparte was sent to cover the war in Russia as a correspondent for \"Corriera delle Sera\". 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