by Curzio Malaparte · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489669741
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«La piel» is the novel by Italian writer Curzio Malaparte, published by Diario El País in paperback (422 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Naples during and after World War II, the novel portrays a city occupied by Allied troops, dominated by hunger, plague and the black market. Malaparte, a liaison officer in the Italian army, shows with a raw and provocative tone a society where moral degradation and absurdity coexist with luxury.
Work originally published in 1949 under the title «La pelle». This 2003 edition belongs to the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection.
For readers of historical fiction and war literature, particularly about World War II.
Curzio Malaparte was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy for his works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). The former is a semi-fictionalised account of the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the latter is an account focusing on morality in the immediate post-war period of Naples.
