10 best books of 2012 – fiction

Here are the Monitor's picks for the best novels of 2012.

5. 'In the Shadow of the Banyan,' by Vaddey Ratner

Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp calls this book by Cambodian-born Vaddey Ratner “a child’s eyewitness account to Cambodia’s genocide, overlaid by the soul of a poet.” (Check out our review here.)

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