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Randa Jarrar is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Map of Home, which won a Hopwood Award, an Arab-American Book Award, and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes and Noble Review. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Chapters, The Oxford American, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, Guernica, Utne, and the Progressive, and she was selected for Beirut39, which celebrates the 39 most gifted writers of Arab origin under age 40. She is working on a collection of stories and a new novel.


Average rating: 3.68 · 533 ratings · 135 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
A Map of Home
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
La Collezionista Di Storie
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009
Dinarzad's Children: An Ant...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2004
The Year of the Revolutiona...
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
Million Writers Award: The ...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008
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Jorge Luis Borges
“I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted
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