Winter
seems to be on its way out already in Hyderabad. It was a bit warm on Sunday
morning at Abids as I began my weekly hunt for books in the second hand book
market. In no time it would be summer I am sure if the temperature on Sunday
was anything to go by. The previous Sunday I had seen a nice copy of
‘Dangerlok’ by Eunice de Souza but hadn’t picked it up. So this Sunday this was
the first title in the haul that I got for a hundred rupees. It is a small book
not more than 125 pages in all that I finished reading in a couple of hours
after I got home.
The
next find was a title I already have several copies of. In a pile of books
being sold for twenty rupees I found a copy of ‘Riding the Iron Rooster’ by
Paul Theroux. It was in an okay condition except for slight damage to the cover
but the pages themselves were intact. I love this book and so bought it. These
were the two titles I found at Abids before I left. On the way there were a
couple of sellers at Chikkadpally and one at the corner of the RTC Crossroads
junction.
At
the RTC Crossroads junction I saw a copy of ‘The Naked I’ edited by Frederick
R. Karl and Leo Hamalion. The cover was torn in a couple of places but it
appeared an interesting book. It had stories/extracts from books from the seventies by Jorge Luis
Borges, Dylan Thomas, Leonard Cohen, R.D. Laing and others. In all it had 24 fiction pieces and three non-fiction pieces and at thirty rupees it was a steal.
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