The Breadwinner (16pt Large Print Edition)

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. <i>The Breadwinner</i> is a novel about loyalty survival families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances.