It had rained heavily on Saturday evening so it was cool on Sunday morning though the rain did not continue. As usual I was on my Sunday trip to Abids to check out the second-hand books on the pavements. At the very first stop at a seller in RTC Crossroads just before Chikkadpally I hit a jackpot. In a heap of books being sold for Rs.50 I spotted two wonderful titles that I grabbed the moment I saw them.
The first title I saw was a nice copy of 'My Name is Lucy Barton' by Elizabeth Strout. Somehow I lag behind in reading the new writers and their prize winning titles. Strout's 'My Name is Lucy Barton' was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016. I haven't read anything by Strout but plan to read this less than two hundred pages book one of these days as the print with widely spaced lines shows it can be finished in a day.
Along side it was a hardcover copy a faber & faber title- 'Mothers' by Jaqueline Rose with the jacket. I don't understand how these two titles ended up here. But whatever it was I was pretty pleased I spotted them. This was the best find of Sunday I thought as I headed for Abids.
At Abids I spotted a copy of 'Contemporary Indian Short Stories' edited by Kaa Naa Subramanyam in a corner with a seller who lets me decide the prices of the books I buy from him. I had read the name of Kaa Naa Subramanyam a long time back. This title had sixteen stories in various Indian languages translated into English including one by one of my favourite writers- Arun Joshi's 'Gherao' that I had read in a different anthology. This bound copy was from 'Anandha Grandhalayam' Ananda Nagar, Hyderabad according to the stamp on it. I paid thirty rupees for this book.
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