num_pages: 144
description: El pan de la guerra (The Breadwinner) brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media - the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Her father, because he has a foreign education, is arrested by the Taliban, the religious group that controls the country. Since women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, or go to school, or work outside the home, the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan. She cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy to earn money for her family. Parvana's determination to survive is the force that drives this novel, set against the backdrop of an intolerable situation brought about by war and religious fanaticism.Deborah Ellis spent several months talking with women and girls in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and Russia. This suspenseful, timely novel is the result of those encounters.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: El pan de la guerra: The Breadwinner
titlecomplete: El pan de la guerra: The Breadwinner (Spanish Edition)
characters: Nooria, Parvana
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Read For School, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 27264
places: Afghanistan
series: The Breadwinner
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hackmatack Children's Choice Award
category: English Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Rocky Mountain Book Award
publisher: Groundwood Books