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02354aam a22003978i 4500 001 2C7254C04DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180502010046 008 170927s2018 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017046485 020 $a 1681372096 020 $a 9781681372099 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a PQ4829.A515 $b B3513 2018 082 00 $a 853/.912 $2 23 100 1 $a Malaparte, Curzio, $d 1898-1957, $e author. 245 14 $a The Kremlin ball : $b material for a novel / $c Curzio Malaparte ; translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee. 263 $a 1803. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2018] 300 $a xvi, 223 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Social classes $z Soviet Union $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Moscow (Russia) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Social life and customs $y 1917-1970 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a McPhee, Jenny, $e translator. 730 0 $a Ballo al Kremlino. $l English. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017014518.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2C7254C04DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search