Clarissa McNair
Description
This is the story of a novelist and private detective In New York City who buys a deserted Tunisian nightclub in the old Arab quarter of Palermo. She
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ships 42 cartons of books, her clothes, her bicycle, her paintings, her Venetian chandelier, all she owns across the Atlantic. Her workmen speak a dialect and take naps in the wheelbarrow; she deals with frustration, renovation and the Mafia. The year ends with a birthday party for Oscar Wilde.
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