Parvana's Setting
Parvana lives in this country.
What is Afghanistan?
Parvana's younger sister.
Who is Maryam?
Parvana had to fetch at least 6 buckets of this to fill the tank.
What is water?
The name that Parvana takes when pretending to be a boy.
Who is Kaseem?
The year the book was first published.
What is 2001?
The main city that Parvana and her family now live in.
What is Kabul?
Parvana is jealous of this natural feature of Nooria.
Shauzia's plan was to save up for this item to sell things from.
What is a tray?
Parvana went here with Mother to find Father.
What is the jail?
The number of chapters in Parvana.
What is 15?
The main place where Parvana works to earn money for her family.
What is the marketplace?
The way in which Hossein, Parvana's older brother, was killed.
What is a land mine?
Parvana sells these by the pack or individually from her tray.
What are cigarettes/smokes?
Parvana smuggles this young girl from the marketplace to her home.
Who is Homa?
The author of Parvana.
Who is Deborah Ellis?
This place is where the Taliban carry out public punishments.
What is the soccer/sports stadium?
Mrs. Weera taught this sport in school.
What is hockey?
This person buys bones that Parvana and Shauzia have dug up.
Who is the Bone Broker?
Parvana witnesses the Taliban cutting off the hands of people accused of this crime.
What is theft/being a thief?
This was added to the book when it was printed 20 years later.
What is the foreword?
The city that Nooria and family travelled to for her wedding.
What is Mazar-e-Sharif?
The occupation of Parvana's father before the arrival of the Taliban.
What is a history teacher?
Parvana reads and writes letters in Dari and this other language.
What is Pashtu?
This person first revealed the plan to turn Parvana into a boy to provide for the family.
Who is Mother?
The alternate title to the novel Parvana.
What is 'The Breadwinner'?