![]() ![]() Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with her mother Fatana, her father, her bossy older sister Nooria, her cheerful younger sister Maryam and her baby brother Ali. ![]() The novel was followed by three sequels, Parvana's Journey in 2002, Mud City in 2003, and My Name is Parvana in 2012. The book has received several literary awards, including the Peter Pan Prize and the Middle East Book Award in 2002. The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family in a war-torn Taliban-era in Afghanistan.įor her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her depiction of life in Afghanistan. ![]() As of October 2013, the English-language edition of the book has had a run of 39 editions. The Breadwinner, also known as Parvana, is a children's novel by Deborah Ellis, first published in 2001. ![]()
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