Since the terrorist attacks, Parisians have been buying up Ernest Hemingway's memoir about the city

Ernest Hemingway's novel 'Paris est une fete' ('A Moveable Feast')
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Ernest Hemingway doesn't know it, but sales of A Moveable Feast, his posthumously released memoir about living in Paris, have apparently seen a big jolt in the City of Light this month.

Since the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, the book has sold out at a number of the city's bookstores and has claimed the No. 1 spot on Amazon's French site, in addition to finding a place among memorials for the 130 people who died.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.