I was able to record interviews with many children, and published them in a book called Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through A Never-Ending War. To research My Name Is Parvana, I spent time in Kabul, meeting with a wide range of women and children. I wondered what life would be like for Parvana in this new Afghanistan. The Breadwinner was followed by two other novels about Parvana and her friend, Shauzia – Parvana’s Journey and Mud City. The Breadwinner follows a girl, Parvana, who disguises herself as a boy in order to feed her family in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The stories I heard there of sorrow and strength, of loss and kindness, formed the basis for my novel for young people called The Breadwinner. Millions of Afghans fled there from the Soviet occupation, the civil war and then the atrocities of the Taliban. Late in the l990s, I spent time in the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. Deborah Ellis shares her experiences of researching her latest book, set in Afghanistan, My Name is Parvana.
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