Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
CASANOVA’S CHINESE RESTAURANT
A NOVEL
Book 5
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
1
CROSSING THE ROAD by the bombed-out public house on the corner and pondering the mystery which dominates vistas framed by a ruined door, I felt for some reason glad the place had not yet been rebuilt. A direct hit had excised even the ground floor, so that the basement was revealed as a sunken garden, or site of archaeological excavation long abandoned, where g ...