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HERITAGE SERIES [PART ONE] Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine master of short stories, likened the universe to an infinite library, an endless beehive-like space. ‘Twenty bookshelves’, Borges wrote, ‘five to each side, line four of the hexagon’s six sides; the

Colombo’s Bouqinistes Paris may be famous for its bouquinistes, stalls selling second hand and antiquarian books lining the banks of the River Seine, but Colombo also has them. They don’t line the banks of the Beira Lake and tourists seldom

We have to go back 60 years to trace the origins of the once thriving secondhand book business in Maradana. Chandani Kirinde tells the story The secondhand book shops nestled away at one end of D.R.Wijewardene Mawatha in Colombo have