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.
The Breadwinner is a novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances..
Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner.
As conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges.
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.
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.
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
