Naju Zahell Zahell itibaren Begampur khata, Bihar 854304, Hindistan itibaren Begampur khata, Bihar 854304, Hindistan

yeh great Scottish novel (30 years in the making) of one week in the life of a Glaswegian drunk who visits his pregnant wife in hospital between visits to pubs and to friends. Set in the 60s as the Gorbals are demolished it is funny and energetic and full of fantastic word play. A rich and absorbing read, heavy with Scottish dialect. found some more notes in my 1995 notebook: ..a kind of Glaswegian Ulysses with Cyclops the cat, the 3 sirens coming out of flats, his wife like Molly confined to bed (although here a week, not a day, she's having a baby in hospital), fags and pubs and beer and darts. The Dab four. Talky Sloan the Marxist ranter, given short shrift here.