kabul (afghanistan)

Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban s rule in Afghanistan.

Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.

When fourteen-year-old Shauzia flees from a refugee camp in Pakistan, she becomes a street kid and begs for money with a dog named Jasper by her side.

When actor, writer, producer Trudi-Ann Tierney first went to Kabul, with the promise of work, it was in an illicit bar. Today she is head of drama at Afghanistan's biggest TV broadcaster, Moby Media Group, where she oversees about half a dozen programs, including the country's most popular soap Raaz Hai Een Khana (The Secrets of This House). Occasionally as madcap as Catch-22 and as absurd as One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, this is a part-hilarious, part-nail-biting account of a talented TV executive working in a war zone and an environment that is dangerous to women. The author's sense of humour and her love of the Afghan people shines through.

An Afghan girl dreams of peace for her country as it is destroyed by war.

"In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age"--Provided by OCLC.

Sunny, a thirty-eight-year-old American, establishes a coffee shop in the middle of war-torn Afghanistan, which becomes a safe haven and comfort to the men and women patrons who meet there, including Halajan, who works alongside Sunny and harbors a secret relationship from her ultra-traditional son, and Yazmina, a young woman who was kidnapped from a remote village, impregnated, and left on a the city street.

Amir and Hassan are good friends growing up together in Afghanistan but when the Soviets invade the country, Amir and his family use their wealth and influence to flee to California, but Hassan and his impoverished family, who are also a shunned ethnic minority, stay and suffer.