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Amit Majmudar


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Modern & Contemporary Fiction


Amit Majmudar is the author of The Abundance, Partitions, chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best debut novels of 2011 and by Booklist as one of the year’s ten best works of historical fiction. His poetry has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Best American Poetry 2011. A radiologist, he lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 2,882 ratings · 537 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors
The Abundance
3.81 avg rating — 1,068 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions
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Partitions
3.99 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions
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Resistance, Rebellion, Life...
3.73 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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Dothead: Poems
3.76 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions
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Sitayana
3.67 avg rating — 112 ratings — 6 editions
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What He Did in Solitary: Poems
3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions
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The Map and the Scissors
3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 editions
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The Book of Vows: The Mahab...
4.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — 4 editions
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0°, 0°: Poems
4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Soar
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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“How little we knew each other, though for centuries our homes had shared walls. How little we will learn, now that all we share is a border.”
― Amit Majmudar, Partitions
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“I am grateful to every reader, whoever you are, wherever you are. Your time has been a gift.”
― Amit Majmudar, Partitions
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“Now picture a volume of human / Reduced to planes and fluttering / Under my thumb like a flipbook / Showing the disease in action”
― Amit Majmudar, Dothead: Poems
tags: poetry, radiology
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Historical Fictio...: Around the World Challenge (Aug 1 - Sept 30, 2012) - Report Points Here 118 238 Oct 03, 2012 06:53PM  
The History Book ...: TERI'S 50 BOOK READ IN 2014 104 189 Dec 31, 2014 09:47PM  
The Book Club: Book Selection Jottings 12 12 Mar 11, 2015 08:56PM  
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Historical Fictio...: This topic has been closed to new comments. February 2016 Nominations: A Short Book: Less than 350 pages 113 405 Jan 09, 2016 09:13PM  
Historical Fictio...: This topic has been closed to new comments. March Nominations: Book set in India 136 437 Jan 28, 2016 08:27AM  


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