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Nooria is Parvana ’s 17-year-old sister. Nooria and Parvana’s relationship is strained because of their age difference and because Nooria seems, to Parvana, to be a fully-fledged adult—and a beautiful one at that.
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A proud and righteous woman, Mother doesn’t want Parvana to...
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For most of Parvana’s life, the city had been in ruins, and...
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Nooria is Parvana ’s 17-year-old sister. Nooria and...
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Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with her mother Fatana, her father Nurullah, her bossy older sister Nooria, her cheerful younger sister Maryam and her baby brother Ali. Taliban soldiers enter her house and arrest her father for having a foreign education.
Nooria is a typical older sister—she's bossy and controlling and most of the time you just want to tell her to shut up. Everything about her drives Parvana nuts, including her "superior big sister smile" (2.7).
Nooria is Parvana ’s 17-year-old sister. Nooria and Parvana’s relationship is strained because of their age difference and because Nooria seems, to Parvana, to be a fully-fledged adult—and a beautiful one at that.
Parvana is not your typical eleven-year-old girl, but she would certainly like to be. She is living in Kabul—a city in Afghanistan—under Taliban rule, so she is surrounded by violence, oppression, and poverty… and before long, her family sees her as their only hope for survival.
Parvana is not your typical eleven-year-old girl, but she would certainly like to be. She is living in Kabul—a city in Afghanistan—under Taliban rule, so she is surrounded by violence, oppressi...
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Parvana. Parvana is the protagonist of the novel. She is an eleven-year-old girl living in Kabul, Afghanistan, under the oppressive rule of the Taliban. Parvana is forced to disguise herself as a boy in order to support her family after her father is unjustly arrested.