Valletta’s ‘Ancient’ Record Store Receives Copy Of Hungarian Novel Inspired By It
Valletta’s D’Amato Records store published a photo of a Hungarian young adult novel that was inspired by their store.
The store which claims to be “The World’s Oldest Record Shop” were gifted a copy of the Hungarian book, authored by Zsolt Bernáth, and titled “The Record Store on Szent János Street”.
The person who gifted the store a copy of the Hungarian novel shared a picture of shop owner William D’Amato smiling from ear to ear, book in hand, with a caption that said: “It is so exciting that William finally got a copy of the book that is basically about his shop and his family!”
The novel, published in 2021, is about “an ancient record store” that hides secrets that Orsi, the story’s protagonist, thought only existed “in the legends of the Knights of Malta”.
“A vacation in Malta can be about many things: the sea, friends, exotic locations. But Orsi finds much more on the island than that,” the novel’s description details.
“If you are even slightly interested in the secrets of the past or distant lands,” Zsolt Bernáth’s novel is for you, one reader wrote.
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