Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Survival or Starvation?
The Breadwinner
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Survival or Starvation?
What you need to know before your trail
Parvana’s father is arrested and taken away by Taliban soldiers. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own.
Parvana, her mother, and sisters are prisoners in their own home. With no man to go out to buy food, they face starvation.
So Parvana must pretend to be a boy to save her family. It is a dangerous plan, but their only chance. In fear, she goes out – and witnesses the horror of landmines, the brutality of the Taliban, and the desperation of a country trying to survive. But even in despair lies hope . . .
Travel Guide
Map from the novel
Taliban rule over Kabul.
Problems of not just living under the rule of the Taliban but living under the Taliban as a woman – one of the family’s every day problems is how to get money to buy food for an all-female household when women aren’t allowed to leave home alone to buy food.
This book looks at the challenges of living under such a regime. It also looks at the difference between fundamentalist Islam and true Islam.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Breadwinner
Destination: Afghanistan Author/Guide : Deborah Ellis Departure Time: 2000s
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