It is the dream for which she has forsaken family and friends. This is the dream that has sustained her through the terrible years in Kabul. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. Parvana's best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country.
The first book in Deborah Ellis's riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.
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