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003			OCoLC
005			20210310163935.0
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020			_a9780063008281 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0063008289 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9780063057166 _q(international edition)
020			_a0063057166 _q(international edition)
035			_a(OCoLC)on1225177897
037			_bHarpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132 _nSAN 200-2086
040			_aNHP _beng _erda _cNHP _dYDX _dBDX _dJTD _dPX0 _dOCLCO _dJAS
050		4	_aPS3608.A78975 _bH68 2021
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100	1		_aHashimi, Nadia, _eauthor. _916257
245	1	0	_aSparks like stars : _ba novel
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, _c[2021]
264		4	_c�2021
300			_a454 pages ; _c24 cm
520			_aAn Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. 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. Bold, illuminating, heartbreaking, yet hopeful, Sparks Like Stars is a story of home--of America and Afghanistan, tragedy and survival, reinvention and remembrance, told in Nadia Hashimi's singular voice.
650		0	_aWomen _zAfghanistan _vFiction. _9108576
650		0	_aSurvival _vFiction. _9108577
650		0	_aWomen surgeons _vFiction. _9108578
651		0	_aKabul (Afghanistan) _vFiction. _957868
651		0	_aAfghanistan _vFiction. _9108579
651		0	_aAfghanistan _xHistory _ySaur Revolution, 1978 _vFiction. _9108580
655		7	_aFiction. _2lcgft _9108581
655		7	_aThrillers (Fiction) _2lcgft _9108582
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _9108583
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