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Silent hearts : a novel
- Title
- Silent hearts : a novel / Gwen Florio.
- Author
- Florio, Gwen, 1955-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-8806 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 323 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan & about two women--an American aid worker and her local interpreter--who form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence that surrounds them in Kabul. In 2001, Kabul is suddenly a place of possibility as people fling off years of repressive Taliban rule. This hopeful chaos brings together American aid worker Liv Stoellner and Farida Basra, an educated Pakistani woman still adjusting to her arranged marriage to Gul, the son of an Afghan strongman whose family spent years of exile in Pakistan before returning to Kabul. Both Liv and her husband take positions at an NGO that helps Afghan women recover from the Taliban years. They see the move as a reboot--Martin for his moribund academic career, Liv for their marriage. But for Farida and Gul, the move to Kabul is fraught, severing all ties with Farida's family and her former world, and forcing Gul to confront a chapter in his life he'd desperately tried to erase. The two women, brought together by Farida's work as an interpreter, form a nascent friendship based on their growing mutual love for Afghanistan, though Liv remains unaware that Farida is reporting information about the Americans' activities to Gul's family, who have ties to the black market. As the bond between Farida and Liv deepens, war-scarred Kabul acts in different ways upon them, as well as their husbands. Silent Hearts is an absorbing, complex portrayal of two very different but equally resilient women caught in the conflict of a war that will test them in ways they never imagined"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Spy fiction.
- War fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-8806
- ISBN
- 9781501181924
- 1501181920
- 9781501181931
- 1501181939
- LCCN
- 2017057630
- 40028370157
- OCLC
- 1019837105
- Author
- Florio, Gwen, 1955- author.
- Title
- Silent hearts : a novel / Gwen Florio.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Florio, Gwen, 1955- Silent hearts. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2018 9781501181948 (DLC) 2018000966
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028370157
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-8806