by Deborah Ellis · Editorial Luis Vives (Edelvives) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426346193
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«El pan de la guerra» is the young adult novel by Deborah Ellis, published by Editorial Luis Vives (Edelvives) in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Parvana, an eleven-year-old girl, lives in Kabul under the Taliban regime. When her father is arrested, she poses as a boy to work, since women are forbidden from earning money. She reads letters in the market, sells tobacco with another disguised girl and, after her father's release, travels with him to Mazar to reunite with her family.
First instalment of Deborah Ellis's The Breadwinner series; in Spain it is volume 8 of the Alandar collection. Translation by Herminia Bevia.
Recommended reading from age 12, especially for those seeking realistic fiction about childhood in contexts of war and social conflict.
Deborah Ellis is a Canadian fiction writer and activist. Her themes are often concerned with the sufferings of persecuted children in the Third World.
