You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks's World Citizens.

I hope this last podcast finds you very well.

It's another long one, so I'm just going to jump right into the story. The piece is titled The Book Seller and is by

Lavi Tidhar. Lavi is the author of A Man Lies Dreaming, The Violent Century, and the World Fantasy Award winning

Osama.

His other works include the Bookman Histories trilogy, several novellas, two collections, and a forthcoming

comics mini-series, Adler.

He currently lives in London.

His website is L V-T-R- at WordPress.com and that's L-A-V-I-E-T-I-D-H-A-R. And if you like what you hear, you can go back to our 2011 November issue, where the smell

of orange groves was featured.

February 2010 brought you the language of the

whirlwind, April 2009, the dying world, and October 2006,

304 Adolf Hitler Strauss.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Ashim Winnay loved Central Station.

He loved the adapto plant neighborhood sprouting over the old stone and concrete buildings, the

budding of new apartments and the gradual fading and shearing of old ones, dried windows, and

walls flaking and falling down in the wind.

Aishim Wenae loved the calls of the Altay Zashin,

the rag and bone men in their traditional passage across the narrow streets

collecting junk to carry to their immense junkyard come temple on the hill in

Shafa to the south. He loved the smell of shisha pipes on the morning wind and the smell

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