Since
it was festival time with Diwali less than a week away the second hand
booksellers at Abids in Hyderabad were not at their usual places before the
regular stores which kept their doors open for Diwali shoppers. Many of them
were at different places and for the regular shoppers it meant searching for
them. I was there before noon last Sunday at Abids looking for titles to pick
up. Somehow all the titles I am missing buying one Sunday seem to be missing
the next. Even then I deliberately am not picking up titles that I should have.
For example I saw a nice copy of Kavery Nambisan’s ‘Mango Coloured Fish’ that I
did not pick up. I hope I can find it next week.
I
ended up buying nothing at Abids but at Chikkadpally one of the sellers had a
title that I bought. It was an uncorrected proof copy of ‘The American Lover’
by Rose Tremain. It is a collection of thirteen short stories that I bought for
a hundred rupees.
The American Lover
Captive
The Jester of Astapovo
Extra Geography
A View of Lake Superior in the Fall
Man in the Water
Juliette Greco's Black Dress
The Housekeeper
Smithy
Blackberry Winter
Lucy and Gaston
The Closing Door
21st-Century Juliet
The most interesting thing finding the book was something I found inside the book. Wedged among the pages was a boarding pass in the name of Andrew McElroy for an Istanbul to Bombay flight of Turkish Airlines on 08 October but the year was not mentioned. It looked about two decades old.
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