Unlike the previous Sunday it was bright and sunny last Sunday when I set out for Abids a bit earlier than usual. I had to go somewhere on work so I planned to do the Abids routine and leave early. The previous Sunday it had rained almost all day and therefore I could not go to Abids but managed to get a book at Chikkadpally. I found a copy of Alice McDermott’s ‘Charming Billy’ for just fifty rupees.
So last Sunday I ended up finding
two good titles. The first one I found was a nice copy of ‘They Came Like
Swallows’ by William Maxwell that I already have. This is my third copy I
think. I bought it because I was getting it cheap and besides William Maxwell
is a writer I would like others to know about.
The second title was a copy of ‘To
a Dubious Salvation’ by Etienne Leroux, a Penguin Modern Classics title. It has
a stunningly stark cover that got my attentions right away. Inside I saw that
it was a trilogy – Seven Days at the Silbersteins, One for the Devil, The Third
Eye- translated from the Afrikaans into English. I got this for two hundred
rupees.
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