The Breadwinner / Deborah Ellis
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TextPublication details: Canada : Oxford University Press, c2000. Description: 168 p. : 20 cmISBN: 9780192787385; 9781382064743DDC classification: 823 ELL
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English Fiction
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Villa College Library | Villa College Library | 823 ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 18296 | ||
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English Fiction
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Villa College Library | Villa College Library | 823 ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 18297 |
Summary
This award-winning novel explores loyalty, survival, family and friendship under extraordinary circumstances. Parvana's father is arrested and taken away by Taliban soldiers.
Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own. Parvana, her mother, and sisters are prisoners in their own home.
With no man to go out to buy food, they face starvation. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner to save her family.
It is a dangerous plan, but their only chance. In fear, she goes out, and witnesses the horror of landmines, the brutality of the Taliban, and the desperation of a country trying to survive.
But even in despair lies hope . . .
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