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About Rumaan Alam
American writer
Rumaan Alam is an American writer, best known for his novel Leave the World Behind. He writes fiction with a contemporary, observant edge, and his work has reached a wide readership through Leave the World Behind, which became his best-known book. Beyond that title, he is known for writing about present-day life and the pressures that shape it.
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Books by Rumaan Alam
Leave the World Behind
2020
Rich and pretty
2016
That kind of mother
2018