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Deborah Ellis

    8 août 1960

    Deborah Ellis crée des récits courageux et dramatiques qui offrent aux lecteurs occidentaux un aperçu profond de la situation des enfants dans les pays en développement. Son œuvre aborde des questions sociales urgentes, donnant une voix aux marginalisés et souvent négligés. En tant que féministe et militante anti-guerre de longue date, son écriture est empreinte d'une profonde compréhension de la souffrance humaine et d'un engagement envers la justice. Les lecteurs sont attirés par sa narration captivante et le message moral résonnant qui transcende les frontières culturelles.

    The Breadwinner
    Mud City
    Keeley the Girl from Turtle Mountain
    My Name Is Parvana
    Parvana
    Le Voyage de Parvana
    • Le Voyage de Parvana

      • 216pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      4,0(118)Évaluer

      Kaboul est en ruines. Déguisée en garçon, Parvana fuit la ville, sous peine d'être livrée aux Taliban. Seule sur les routes, elle n'a qu'une idée en tête : retrouver sa mère et sa sœur. En chemin, Parvana rencontre d'autres enfants qui, comme elle, n'ont plus rien. Leur horizon ? Le camp de réfugiés où, peut-être, des membres de leur famille ont trouvé un abri. Et si la vie ne tient qu'à un fil, Parvana a le don de la rendre précieuse et de rallumer l'espoir dans les cœurs...

      Le Voyage de Parvana
    • Parvana

      Une enfance en Afghanistan - Roman historique

      • 184pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Imagine living in a country in which women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out. In this powerful and realistic tale, eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city during the Taliban rule. Parvana’s father—a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed—works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day he is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food. As conditions in the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. Forbidden by the Taliban government to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy and become the breadwinner.

      Parvana
    • My Name Is Parvana

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,3(81)Évaluer

      Fifteen-year-old Parvana has rebuilt her life after being reunited with her mother and sisters. But suspicion and fear towards the education of women have put them all in danger. When Parvana is held at an American army base in Afghanistan, suspected of being a terrorist, she must protect her family at all costs.

      My Name Is Parvana
    • Keeley the Girl from Turtle Mountain

      • 99pages
      • 4 heures de lecture
      4,0(37)Évaluer

      It's September 1901, and ten-year-old Keeley and her father are making a fresh start, after the death of Keeley's mother, in a brand new town called Frank that sits in a valley at the bottom of Turtle Mountain in southern Alberta.From the moment they arrive Keeley knows she’ll love Frank. Not only can she and her dad live together, but in Frank there's room for children to breathe, as her dad would say. There's also room for mischief, and Keeley quickly gets into some, with the encouragement of a schoolmate named Peter. Peter dares Keeley to spend a night in the coal mine, where she discovers another part of Frank that's a little bit scary. Will things turn out as she hopes?

      Keeley the Girl from Turtle Mountain
    • Mud City

      • 160pages
      • 6 heures de lecture
      4,0(4413)Évaluer

      Shauzia is Parvana's friend from The Breadwinner. Now Shauzia has fled from Afghanistan, to a refugee camp in Pakistan. She dreams of getting away from the refugee camp and travelling to France. Escape is not so easy. But Shauzia is determined to find a new future for herself. This is a story on the human situation in Afghanistan.

      Mud City
    • The Breadwinner

      • 170pages
      • 6 heures de lecture
      4,0(22609)Évaluer

      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.

      The Breadwinner
    • It's 2021 and Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy. These days, Parvana runs a school for girls, but when the Taliban regains power everything changes in an instant and Parvana and Shauzia must lead the girls to safety.

      One More Mountain
    • When a Muslim boy is arrested at a high school on suspicion of terrorist affiliations, growing racial tensions divide the student population.

      Bifocal
    • Die 13-jährige Binti lebt mit ihren älteren Geschwistern Junie und Kwasi und ihrem Vater in einer kleinen Stadt in Malawi. Die Mutter ist vor einigen Jahren an AIDS gestorben, doch über die Todesursache wird geschwiegen. Auch ihr Vater leidet an AIDS. Neben der Schule hat Binti einen Job als Sprecherin bei einem Hörspiel im Radio, auf den sie sehr stolz ist und der ihr das Gefühl gibt, etwas Besonderes zu sein. Als der Vater stirbt, reißen die Verwandten den gesamten Besitz an sich. Die Kinder werden bei den Familien zweier verschiedener Brüder untergebracht. Beim Begräbnis spricht die Großmutter der Kinder offen aus, woran ihr Sohn gestorben ist, was einem Skandal gleichkommt. Die Kinder werden gemieden, dürfen nicht mehr zur Schule gehen und müssen hart arbeiten. Binti läuft weg und schlägt sich zu ihrer Großmutter durch. Dort findet sie eine Hütte vor, voll mit AIDS-Waisen, um die sich ihre Großmutter kümmert. Erst langsam begreift Binti, dass ihre Radio-Vergangenheit vorüber ist und sie einen anderen Weg finden muss, um etwas Besonderes zu sein.

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