She has a son, Rafi, who is about to fly to New York, where he will train to become a dancer. She has married Asif,who she met in the desert as she searched for her family when she was a child. Many things have changed for Parvana since then. But when the Taliban were defeated in 2001, it looked as if Afghans could finally rebuild their country. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.It has been 20 years since Parvana and Shauzia had to disguise themselves as boys to support themselves and their families. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.ĭescription: It's 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. One More Mountain It’s 2021, and the Taliban have retaken power in Afghanistan. My Name Is Parvana 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. 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.

Mud City 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. Parvana’s Journey In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Description: The Breadwinner 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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