**It's 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.** In Kabul, 15-year-old Damsa runs away to avoid being forced into marriage by her family. She is found by a police
One More Mountain
β Scribed by Deborah Ellis
- Book ID
- 113479455
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781773068862
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β¦ Synopsis
It's 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.
In Kabul, 15-year-old Damsa runs away to avoid being forced into marriage by her family. She is found by a police officer named Shauzia, who takes her to Green Valley, a shelter and school for women and girls run by Parvana.
It has been 20 years since Parvana and Shauzia had to disguise themselves as boys to support themselves and their families. But when the Taliban were defeated in 2001, it looked as if Afghans could finally rebuild their country. Many things have changed for Parvana since then. She has married Asif, who she met in the desert as she searched for her family when she was a child. She runs a school for girls. She has a son, Rafi, who is about to fly to New York, where he will train to become a dancer.
But Shauzia is still Parvana's best friend....
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