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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. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. 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.

生活的壓力與現實震撼，強迫帕瓦娜必須快速脫離原先應是夢幻般美好的青少年階段，全力擔起一家之主的重擔。年長的姐姐不宜拋頭在外，年少的弟妹也幫不上忙，帕瓦娜只得被迫剪髮，扮成男孩，開始為一家三餐奮鬥。帕瓦娜以男兒身出現，替代父親為人讀信寫信，視野和思想驟然變得無比寬廣與開放。她體認到百姓在強勢政權的對待下，是那樣的無力與無奈。生活壓力與現實震撼強迫帕瓦娜快速脫離原先應是夢幻般美好的青少年階段……