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Book of the Week: Ox Travels

Book of the Week: Ox Travels: Episode 3: The Piece of String

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Ox Travels

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Episode 3: The Piece of String

The Piece of String

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Ox Travels, The Piece of String

Shehan Karunatilaka looks for a man in Sri Lanka who dispenses a string to bring fortune.

Shehan Karunatilaka climbs up Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka in search of a man who dispenses a length of string for the wrist to help bring fortune and ward off calamity.

Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories. 

Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

Shehan Karunatilaka climbs up the staircase at Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka in search of a man who dispenses a length of string for the wrist to help bring fortune and ward off calamity.


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