{"product_id":"2940170437108","title":"Silent Hearts: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan¿ about two womenamp;mdash;an American aid worker and her local interpreteramp;mdash;who form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence that surrounds them in Kabul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth Liv and her husband take positions at an NGO that helps Afghan women recover from the Taliban years. They see the move as a rebootamp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the bond between Farida and Liv deepens, war-scarred Kabul acts in different ways upon them, as well as their husbands. \u003ci\u003eSilent Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117292798192,"sku":"2940170437108","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170437108_p0.jpg?v=1763802236","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170437108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}