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The breadwinner

by Ellis, Deborah.
Type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Oxford University Press, 2004Edition: 1st ed. Paperback.Description: 170 p. : map ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0192752847.Subject(s): Afghanistan - Fiction | Kabul (Afghanistan) - Fiction | Sex role - Fiction | Survival - Fiction | Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions | Women's rights | Women's rights - Children's fiction | Literature & Rhetoric
List(s) this item appears in: G4 UOIs | G6-8 Book project | z-realistic Fiction
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Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. The family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.