Malaparte: A Biography

A sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artists and thinkers of his time.

Curzio Suckert—best known by his pen name, Malaparte—was not only a literary master but one of the mystery men of twentieth-century letters. The son of a cosmopolitan German businessman and an Italian mother, Malaparte led a life that was intimately entwined from star...