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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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Average rating: 4.06 · 23,168 ratings · 3,145 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	In the Shadow of the Banyan 4.07 avg rating — 21,923 ratings — published 2012 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Music of the Ghosts 3.84 avg rating — 1,229 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler by Carol Anshaw (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Simon & Schuster (Editor), Chris Cleave (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages (Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing) by Frank Stewart (series_editor), Vaddey Ratner (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Sharon May (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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April 2013 Book of the Month

In the Shadow of the Banyan

by Vaddey Ratner

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by Jamie McGuire

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Dead Until Dark

by Charlaine Harris

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First Grave on the Right

by Darynda Jones

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