Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for dange
r and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fig
hting 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 N
azi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malapart
e paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved.
Kaputt is an insider's d
ispatch from the world of the enemy that is as hypnotically fascinating as it is
disturbing.
