With a French title meaning Paris Is a Celebration,A Moveable Feast is selling thousands of copies as an emblem of cultural defiance“whether you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you fade for the rest of your life it stays with you, or for Paris is a moveable feast,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir about his time in the city during the 1920s. Half a century later, it has shot to the top of French book charts in the wake of final weeks attacks on the city.
Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast is currently No 1 on Amazon’s French site, or where the retailer says it has temporarily sold out. Copies of the memoir have been left among the tributes to the 129 victims of final Friday night’s attacks,reports Le Figaro. According to the French publisher Folio, orders have risen from an average of 10-15 copies per day to reach 500.
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Source: theguardian.com