On most Sundays I get lucky finding good titles in the Sunday book market at Abids. But on some Sundays I get very lucky and finding some wonderful titles there. Last Sunday was one such day when I found a wonderful title though it was at Chikkadpally and not at Abids.
I spotted a copy of ‘Only Man is Vile’ by William McGowan and picked it up to take a closer look. It looked almost new and was a hardcover copy and I had a feeling that I had come across the title somewhere earlier. I couldn’t recollect where I had read about it and so decided to buy it and got it for two hundred rupees. It is about the situation in Sri Lanka written by a journalist.
I left Abids soon after finding this title and got into a bus upto Koti and from there I got into another bus and got down at Chikkadpally after some hesitation since I wanted to go home and have lunch as I was feeling quite hungry. However, I decided to check out the two booksellers and got lucky since I spotted a brand-new looking copy of ‘The Border Trilogy’ by Cormac McCarthy. A couple of weeks ago I had found a copy of ‘Suttree’ with the same seller and coincidentally it was at the same place that I found ‘The Border Trilogy’ that I got for just a hundred and fifty rupees.
Hyderabad Book Fair dates
At last someone tweeted the dates of the Hyderabad National Book Fair. It is from 9-19 February, 2024. I am not very glad because I would be travelling from 12th Feb and would be able to go to the Book Fair for only two days!
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