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The Heaven Shop is based in Southern Africa and is about the AIDS crisis Sacred Leaf follows children involved in the production of coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived. Many of Ellis’s children’s books, like The Breadwinner, begin with a visit to a country experiencing a humanitarian crisis and then focus on the resilience of the children caught up in that crisis. In 2011, Ellis picked Parvana’s story up again when Parvana is 15 and captured by the U.S. Parvana’s story continues in Parvana’s Journey, while Ellis follows Shauzia in Mud City.
The Breadwinner is the first in a series. During their time in power, the Taliban conducted massacres, razed entire towns and agricultural areas, and committed a number of war crimes. The Soviet-Afghan war had a death toll of anywhere between half a million and two million civilians, depending on the model. As Ellis writes in the forward to The Breadwinner, these conflicts killed or negatively affected more civilians than soldiers. late in 2001, after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City. The Taliban were removed from power by the U.S. They were internationally reprimanded for their harsh laws, refusal of international aide for displaced civilians, and their treatment of women in particular. Following the Soviet retreat in 1989, Afghanistan fell into civil war-and in 1996, the Taliban (an Islamist fundamentalist organization) took control of the country.
The United States, along with Pakistan, China, the UK, and other countries, supported insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 the resulting conflict was one of the final Cold War proxy wars. Afghanistan, as Parvana notes, has a long history of strife and conquest, but The Breadwinner focuses mainly on the events of the late 20th century.
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