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Letter form Palermo
Weaver, William | June 13, 1959 issue

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Surely no one has ever loved Palermo in Italy at first sight. Though it has a beautiful situation, the city is dingy and poor, the restaurants are few and the food not especially good. There are fine monuments but they are closed at capricious hours, and the weather is appalling. Much has been written about other Italian cities, but Palermo has been neglected, until this winter when, with dazzling unexpectedness, a superb novel by a writer nobody had heard of took the Italian reading public by storm. This singular Italian bestseller is "Gattopardo," by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

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GATTOPARDO (Book); RESTAURANTS; MONUMENTS; HOSPITALITY industry; PALERMO (Italy); ITALY
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