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Ru Freeman

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'Silk' Luxuriates In The Bittersweet Pain Of Love And Longing

Sunday, June 22, 2014

NPR

I first read Alessandro Baricco's Silk in 1998, in its English translation by Guido Waldman. The book — a tale of travel, passion and mysterious, silent communication — resonated with me immediately.

I had just returned to the United States after my graduate studies in Sri Lanka, and I was ...