The Kremlin Ball by Curzio Malaparte, Jenny McPhee

The Kremlin Ball

Curzio Malaparte, Jenny McPhee

223 pages first pub 1948 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative slow-paced
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Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kremlin Ball, which might be described as Proust in the corridors of Soviet power. The book is set at the end of the 1920s, when the Great Terror may ...

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reflective 100%
challenging 50%
funny 50%
informative 50%
mysterious 50%
sad 50%
tense 50%

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