Because Parvana's father can no longer work, her family situation becomes dire, as women are not allowed to travel outside the home unless accompanied by a related male in Afghanistan. Soon after, her mother becomes depressed and will not move from her To shack (thin mattress). Parvana and her mother go to the local jail and beg for her father to be freed, but the guards beat them for being so outspoken. Taliban soldiers enter her house and arrest her father for having a foreign education. Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with her mother Fatima, her father, her older sister Nooria, and two younger siblings, Maryam and Ali. She wasn't the only one who got kicked out of school, or their job though, Parvana's parents were kicked out of their job and Noria was kicked out of high school! and that's where the story begins.
Parvana was an 11 year old girl, who was kicked out of school, when that Talibans came. The novel was followed by three sequels, Parvana's Journey in 2002, Mud City in 2003, and My Name is Parvana in 2012. The book has received several literary awards, including the Peter Pan Prize and the Middle East Book Award in 2002. The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family in a war-torn Taliban-era in Afghanistan.įor her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her depiction of life in Afghanistan. As of October 2013, the English-language edition of the book has had a run of 39 editions. The Breadwinner, also known as Parvana, is a children's novel by Deborah Ellis, first published in 2000.
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