The Breadwinner

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. Because he has a foreign education, her father 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. Parvanas 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. Royalties from the sale of The Breadwinner will go toward educating Afghan girls in Pakistani refugee camps. A potent portrait of life in contemporary Afghanistan, showing that powerful heroines can survive even in the most oppressive ... conditions. Booklist養家糊口的人帶來生活的問題，最近在國際媒體中爆炸塔利班統治下生活的現實。年輕 Parvana生活與她的家人在一間房在阿富汗喀布爾炸毀公寓大樓。因為他有一個外國的教育，她的父親被逮捕塔利班控制全國的宗教團體。由於婦女不能出現在公共場合，除非涵蓋從頭到腳，或去上學，或在家庭以外工作的頭，家庭變得越來越絕望，直到 Parvana 設想的計畫。她剪她的頭髮，把自己偽裝成一個男孩要賺的錢為她的家庭。Parvanas決心生存是情況的這本小說為背景的戰爭和宗教狂熱主義所帶來的無法容忍的動力。黛博拉· 艾理斯花說話與婦女和女孩在巴基斯坦和俄羅斯阿富汗難民營中的幾個月。這個懸疑、 及時的小說是那些遭遇的結果。從養家糊口的人出售特許使用費將去往巴基斯坦難民營中的阿富汗女童教育。生活在當代的阿富汗，顯示強大的英雄可以生存的烈性的肖像...即使在最嚴酷的壓迫條件。書