Parvana’s mother sinks into a depression and fails to take care of the family.Ī neighbor named Mrs. When Father is arrested for no apparent reason, the family is left without a provider or even a male old enough to purchase food and supplies. Parvana can only leave the house to help Father to and from the market, as women aren’t permitted in public without a male escort.įather urges the girls to remain strong in the face of oppression. Father, who has a leg injury, makes a meager living for the family by selling items and translating letters in the marketplace. Their mother is no longer allowed to be a writer for the local radio station. She and Nooria, like all girls, are now forbidden to attend school. Her whole family - parents, older sister, Nooria, and younger siblings, Maryam and Ali - has been forced to live in one room. Since the Taliban took over, life has been a struggle. In this stunning sequel to The Breadwinner Trilogy, Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.Parvana is an 11-year-old girl living in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan.
It is the dream for which she has forsaken family and friends. This is the dream that has sustained her through the terrible years in Kabul. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France.
Parvana's best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. The first book in Deborah Ellis's riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.
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