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    "description": "Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family,\u00a0Sitara Zamani\u00a0lives a privileged life in Afghanistan\u2019s thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan\u2019s progressive president, and Sitara\u2019s beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara\u2019s world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara\u2019s entire family. Only she survives.\u00a0\n\nSmuggled 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\u2014Aryana Shepherd\u2014and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon.\n\nNew York, 2008: Thirty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana\u2019s world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room\u2014a 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\u2019s fury and desire for answers\u2014and, perhaps, revenge.",
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