Hemingway’s Paris Memoir Flies Off Shelves in Show of Defiance

Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast,’ or ‘Paris est une Fete’ in French, is flying off the shelves at bookstores across the French capital and is the fastest-selling biography and foreign- language book at online retailer Amazon.fr. Daily orders of the memoir, first published in 1964, three years after the American author’s death, have risen 50-fold to 500 since Monday, according to publisher Folio.

Copies have been laid among the flowers and tributes at the sites of the massacres, and people are reading the book in bars and cafes, Folio spokesman David Ducreux said Thursday. Orders surged after a BFM television interview on Monday with a 77- year-old woman called Danielle, who urged people to read the memoir as she laid flowers for the dead. The video was shared hundreds of times on social media.