Parvana (The Breadwinner #1)
About this book
Originally published in Canada as The Breadwinner.
There are many types of battle in Afghanistan.Imagine living in a country where women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out. This is the life of Parvana, a young girl growing up in Afghanistan under the control of an extreme religious military group.When soldiers burst into her home and drag her father off to prison, Parvana is forced to take responsibility for her whole family, dressing as a boy to make a living in the marketplace of Kabul, risking her life in the dangerous and volatile city.By turns exciting and touching, Parvanais a story of courage in the face of overwhelming fear and repression.
Subjects
- afghanistan, fiction
- children's fiction
- children's stories, american
- children's stories, canadian
- disguise
- droits
- employment
- familia
- families
- family
- family life
- femmes
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- filles
- girls
- government policy
- islamic fundamentalism
- juvenile fiction
- littérature de jeunesse anglaise
- politics and government
- responsabilité
- responsibilidad
- responsibility
- rôle selon le sexe
- rol sexual
- romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- sex discrimination
- sex role
- sex role, fiction
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- survival
- taliban
- talibans
- women
- women's rights
- women's rights, fiction