The SkinBy: Curzio Malaparte This is the first unexpurgated English edition of Curzio Malapartes legendary work The Skin. The book begins in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip on the devastated city of Naples. The sometime Fascist and ever resourceful Curzio Malaparte is working with the Americans as a liaison officer. He looks after Colonel Jack Hamilton, a Christian gentleman . . . an American in the noblest sense of the word, who speaks French