A perverse and delicious tell-all view of the Soviet elite in the 1920s. Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kremlin Ball, which might
Natalia Ginzburg, one of Italy’s great writers, introduced A Family Lexicon, her most celebrated work, with an unusual disclaimer: “The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.
