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Vaddey Ratner

Vaddey Ratner was five years old when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. Having endured four years under the brutal regime, she arrived in the United States in 1981 as a refugee not knowing English and eventually went on to graduate summa cum laude from Cornell University, where she specialized in Southeast Asian history and literature. She lives in Potomac, Maryland.

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In the Shadow of the Banyan is now available in Trade Paperback
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In the Shadow of the Banyan will be released on June 04, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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Norton Patch, June 5, 2013
...community room of Norton Public Library . This month's selection is “In the Shadow of the Banyan,” by Vaddey Ratner. 2. Southeastern graduation The Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School graduation ceremony will be 6 p.m....
WRTI 90.1 FM, June 3, 2013
...explores climate change, Jami Attenberg depicts an eating disorder, Dave Eggers sends a businessman to Saudi Arabia, and Vaddey Ratner fictionalizes life under the Khmer Rouge. In nonfiction, Jeffrey Toobin examines the Supreme Court and President Obama....
Brisbane Times, May 24, 2013
...IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYAN. By Vaddey Ratner. Simon & Schuster. 322pp. $29.99. It has always puzzled me that Buddhists who avoid killing even a mosquito, have a history of bloodily slaughtering other humans - Burmese...
Wicked Local Norton, May 24, 2013
...June 6 in the conference room. This month's selection is “In the Shadow of the Banyan” by Vaddey Ratner. Request the book through the online library system. For more information, contact Amanda Viana at 508-286-2695 or...
Montgomery Village Patch, May 17, 2013
...children's author Tommy Greenwald. Hysterically funny and great for middle grade boys!   Before that, I read Vaddey Ratner's "In the Shadow of the Banyan," a fictionalized version of her true story of being born into the Cambodian royal family and,...
Baltimore Sun, May 10, 2013
...501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore Future: Other authors in the series include Jane Green on Sept. 23 and Vaddey Ratner on Oct. 21...
Salon, May 5, 2013
...This piece originally appeared on . At the opening night reading for PEN’s� , Jamaica Kincaid chose to read not from her newest novel,� See Now Then, but from John Milton’s� Paradise Lost. The� Reader� caught up with the renowned Caribbean...
Norton Patch, June 5, 2013
...community room of Norton Public Library . This month's selection is “In the Shadow of the Banyan,” by Vaddey Ratner. 2. Southeastern graduation The Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School graduation ceremony will be 6 p.m....
WRTI 90.1 FM, June 3, 2013
...explores climate change, Jami Attenberg depicts an eating disorder, Dave Eggers sends a businessman to Saudi Arabia, and Vaddey Ratner fictionalizes life under the Khmer Rouge. In nonfiction, Jeffrey Toobin examines the Supreme Court and President Obama....
Delmarva Public Radio, June 3, 2013
...explores climate change, Jami Attenberg depicts an eating disorder, Dave Eggers sends a businessman to Saudi Arabia, and Vaddey Ratner fictionalizes life under the Khmer Rouge. In nonfiction, Jeffrey Toobin examines the Supreme Court and President Obama....
KTEP 88.5 FM, June 3, 2013
...explores climate change, Jami Attenberg depicts an eating disorder, Dave Eggers sends a businessman to Saudi Arabia, and Vaddey Ratner fictionalizes life under the Khmer Rouge. In nonfiction, Jeffrey Toobin examines the Supreme Court and President Obama....
WNIJ, June 3, 2013
...explores climate change, Jami Attenberg depicts an eating disorder, Dave Eggers sends a businessman to Saudi Arabia, and Vaddey Ratner fictionalizes life under the Khmer Rouge. In nonfiction, Jeffrey Toobin examines the Supreme Court and President Obama....
NPR, June 3, 2013
...labor by clinging to the memories of legends and poems her father, a poet, had told her. Novelist Vaddey Ratner, who as a young girl survived the Khmer Rouge's brutal regime, has translated her childhood experiences into a fictional tale about the power...
Guardian.co.uk, May 28, 2013
...Trader of Saigon coming out in July (contemporary). And REALLY enjoyed In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner set in 80s. Highlights from the blogosphere What happens when you try to put biodiversity at the centre of development policy? Dilys...