have been yearning to read Anna Kavan.. read Sleep has his House from a bookshop in Puri a couple of years back, and haven't been able to find anything by her anywhere else since. one perfect reason to go back to Puri, then.






















Continuing with the Puri reminiscences, here's one more difficult to locate book I'd found in Puri. M.Ageyev's Novel with Cocaine. Apocrypha claims that Ageyev might actually be a pseudonym for Vladimir Nabokov (!) ..who, following the book's original publication in France, had described it as 'decadent and disgusting'. Here is the Wikipedia entry if you want to know more.