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Rumaan Alam

Biography

Rumaan Alam

Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and adapted into a major motion picture, as well as three other novels: ENTITLEMENT, THAT KIND OF MOTHER and RICH AND PRETTY. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.

Rumaan Alam

Books by Rumaan Alam

by Rumaan Alam - Fiction

Taut, unsettling and alive to the seductive distortions of money, ENTITLEMENT is a riveting tale for our new gilded age --- a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession.

by Rumaan Alam - Fiction

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND is a magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.