num_pages: 437
description: 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.Kaputt is an insider’s dispatch from the world of the enemy that is as hypnotically fascinating as it is disturbing.
language: English
title: Kaputt
titlecomplete: Kaputt
characters: Hans Frank, Eugen Napoleon Nicolaus of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Närke, Brigitte Frank, Kurt Franz, Charlotte Wächter, Curzio Malaparte, Baron Wolsegger, Josef Bühler, Kaarlo Hillilä, Axel Munthe, Private Grigorescu, Eugen Ritter von Schobert, Otto von Wächter, Colonel Merikallio, Eduard Dietl
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, World War II, Italy, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 2572
places: Potsdam, Warsaw Ghetto, Rovaniemi, Russia, Iasi, Romania, Finland
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ
category: Ιταλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία
publisher: New York Review Books