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Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Seeing Aishadi by Nicole Kraus

Ling Ma read Seeing Aishadi by Nicole Kraus. The story is based on Abbas Kiarstami's 1997 film Taste of Cherry. It follows a middle-aged man searching for someone to bury him in Turan, Iran. Ling Ma: "What I had taken for devotion had crossed the line into something else"

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