Name: The Breadwinner (in English)
Price: 16.83 USD
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Author: Ellis, Deborah
ISBN: 9780369308429

Type

Physical Book

Author

Deborah Ellis

Publisher

ReadHowYouWant

Year

2013

Language

Inglés

Pages

194

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9780369308429

Synopsis "The Breadwinner (in English)"

Over two million copies of The Breadwinner Trilogy sold worldwide Eleven - year - old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed - out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father - a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed - works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, and the family is left wihtout someone who can earn money or even shop for food. As conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner. The Breadwinner is a novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances.

Deborah Ellis

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Nacida en Cochrane, Ontario, tuvo que mudarse varias veces en su infancia debido al trabajo de sus padres. Ellis decidió comenzar a escribir cuando tenía entre 11 y 12 años de edad. Cuando creció, su obra y su escritura fueron hechas principalmente mediante el viajar y hablar a otros que tienen problemas y documentar las cosas principales. Ella inició la escritura de su primer libro, El pan de la guerra, un tiempo después.

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