They make the money for the trays by digging graves.Parvana is the novel's protagonist. They start a portable shop using trays to hold the items they sell. Although they were never close before, necessity makes them allies. She also starts a business with a girl named Shauzia-also dressed as a boy-with whom she used to go to school. While she is there, Parvana forms a mysterious friendship with a woman in the window above her location at the market the woman throws gifts down to her. Parvana takes up her father’s business of reading and writing letters for illiterate people in the market. The two women come up with the idea of disguising Parvana as a boy by cutting her hair and dressing her in clothes that belonged to her late brother, Hossain, so she can work and buy groceries. Weera begin to publish a clandestine magazine, which they smuggle back and forth from Pakistan. Weera, a former physical education teacher, comes to stay with Parvana’s family to help, and Parvana’s mother begins to emerge from her depression. This leaves the family in a dire position, as women are not allowed to work or even travel unaccompanied by men in the Taliban’s Afghanistan. Parvana’s mother becomes deeply depressed, refusing to move from her mattress. Its 2017 film adaptation, executive produced by Angelina Jolie and directed by Nora Twomey, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Frequently selected as assigned reading for middle school students, The Breadwinner won the Peter Pan Award and the Middle East Book Award. Her book Women of the Afghan War is the outgrowth of her conversations with women in the refugee camps, and her interviews with children there prompted her to write The Breadwinner. Prior to beginning the series, Ellis spent several months interviewing Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Four sequels followed it: Parvana’s Journey Mud City My Name is Parvana and One More Mountain. Exploring themes of human connection, maturation and bravery, and the repression of women, The Breadwinner was critically acclaimed upon its release and has had over 40 print runs in the United States alone. It centers on an 11-year-old girl named Parvana who, due to her family’s circumstances, is forced to defy the Taliban and their repressive laws to become the breadwinner for her family. The Breadwinner, also known as Parvana, is a 2000 children’s novel by Canadian author and activist Deborah Ellis.
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