An honest, heart-breaking and positive story of an act of enormous courage and creative survival in an intolerable environment. Based on impeccable research in an Aghan refugee camp. By an award-winning author, this novel tells the story of Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to save her mother and sisters from starvation. How are they to understand the reality of a girl's life under Taliban rule? This book tells about real life in Afghanistan. The media is bombarding children with images. She suffers beatings and the desperation of trying to survive.

In fear she goes out - and witnesses the horror of avoiding landmines, and the brutality of the Taliban. It is a dangerous plan, but their only chance. Parvana, her mother and sisters must stay inside. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave home. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Afghanistan: Parvana's father is arrested and taken away by the Taliban solders. The situations the Author places her characters in are well described and thought through to the point the reader is made to think and examine the way they would react in the same circumstances, and as I have said in previous reviews I do like a book that makes me think.Īlthough I am not a big fan of zombie novels, I am looking forward to reading the remainder of this trilogy and would, therefore recommend it to anyone who enjoys this genre of book or is an avid viewer of The Walking Dead. Through a skilful use of writing and rich development of the characters, this Author is able to give this books readers a thoroughly emotionally charged and realistic journey through their trials and tribulations.

Readers catch a glimpse into the lifestyle of Afghans in Taliban controlled Kabul in the novel The Breadwinner, by Deborah Ellis. The main protagonist is a strong man faced with unenviable choices and following a course of actions he may have thought himself incapable of before the collapse of the world he knows. Characters Symbols and Symbolism Settings Themes and Motifs Styles This detailed literature summary also contains Quotes and a Free Quiz on The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. This type of post-apocalyptic themed novel seems to be all around us at the moment, but in this debut novel I found something I hadn’t come across before, a complete storyline and some very relatable characters. Some readers may think that at 139 pages it couldn’t possibly set the scene for a gripping trilogy, and those readers would be wrong. This novella length book is the first in a post-apocalyptic trilogy, and is a good start to what promises to be an interesting series.