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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 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.

Produktbeschreibung
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 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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Autorenporträt
CLARISSA McNAIR was born in Mississippi and graduated from Briarcliff College in New York. In Toronto, she worked as a researcher for CBC-TV's award-winning documentary on organized crime, Connections. In Rome, she was a news writer, newscaster and producer of documentaries for Vatican Radio. In Los Angeles, McNair worked in film. She is now a foreign correspondent with World Radio Paris.McNair is a private detective who worked undercover in NYC with the Joint Terrorist Task Force, the Organized Crime Intelligence Division of the NYPD and with the FBI. Her international and U.S. cases range from stolen art recovery and money-laundering to rape and murder.Clarissa McNair lives in Palermo, Sicily.