The first find of Sunday was a beautiful copy of Anne Enright's 'The Gathering' that I got cheap for Rs 75 at Chikkadpally. This is my second copy of the Booker winning title. I plan to give one of the copies with me to someone who might want to read Enright.
The second find of Sunday was another Anne Enright title that I had seen the previous Sunday too. 'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch' by Anne Enright had been in a heap selling for fifty rupees last Sunday but this Sunday it was in a Rs 20 heap so I snapped it up.
The third find was an impulsive buy. I picked up Peter Blauner's 'Casino Moon' after I saw the Penguin imprint and the blurbs at the back. I want to read it sometime very soon.
The last find was Nirad C. Chaudhuri's 'To Live or Not to Live' that I found at another seller at Chikkadpally. After reading Arun Joshi I do not want to miss reading any Indian writer who wrote in English in the early years of the previous century. This wasn't the last find though. At Abids I had picked up the April 2012 issue of 'The New Yorker' magazine that I got for only twenty rupees.
Photographs of books taken by Uma Shanker.
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