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03346aam a22005418i 4500 001 D915D7CA227C11ECA4F9151B2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211001010014 007 tb 008 210402t20212021meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021015792 020 $a 1432890263 020 $a 9781432890261 035 $a (OCoLC)1245250202 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d LD4 $d IK2 $d INO $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PS3608.A78975 $b S63 2021 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Hashimi, Nadia, $e author. 245 10 $a Sparks like stars : $b a novel / $c Nadia Hashimi. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2021. 300 $a 607 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print core 520 $a "Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zalmani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan's progressive president, and Sitara's beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara's world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara's entire family. Only she survives. Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name - Aryana Shepherd - and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon. A survivor, Aryana has refused to look back, choosing instead to bury the trauma and devastating loss she endured... New York, 2018: Forty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana's world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room - a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana's fury and desire for answers - and, perhaps, revenge. Realizing that she cannot go on without finding the truth, Aryana embarks on a quest that takes her back to Kabul--a battleground between the corrupt government and the fundamentalist Taliban - and through shadowy memories of the world she loved and lost."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Afghan American women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z Afghanistan $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Survival $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women surgeons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women physicians $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Kabul (Afghanistan) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x History $y Saur Revolution, 1978 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print core series. 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20220108010654.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211102010818.0 952 $l FDPC194 $d 20211030010258.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211001010118.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D915D7CA227C11ECA4F9151B2FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search