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Vaddey Ratner, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and war refugee, is a Cambodian American novelist. She is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels. Her debut autobiographical New York Times bestseller, In the Shadow of the Banyan, was a finalist for both the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2013 Indies Choice Book of the Year and was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program 2015-2016. Her second novel, Music of the Ghosts, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2018. Her works have been translated into twenty languages.

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In the Shadow of the Banyan

4.07 avg rating — 21,321 ratings — published 2012 — 55 editions
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Music of the Ghosts

3.84 avg rating — 1,178 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions
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When the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia in 1975, Ratner was only a child. She fictionalizes her story of survival in her debut novel, In the...
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“words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.”
Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.”
Vaddey Ratner

“I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering”
Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

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Francisco Thank you - I am so looking forward to reading your novel.


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