Cover of The Breadwinner

    The Breadwinner

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    The Breadwinner

    The glos­sary of “The Bread­win­ner” pro­vides essen­tial def­i­n­i­tions of terms rel­e­vant to the cul­tur­al and geo­graph­i­cal con­text of the sto­ry. Key terms include:

    - **burqa**: A full-body gar­ment for women, fea­tur­ing a nar­row mesh screen over the eyes.
    — **chador**: A cloth cov­er­ing for wom­en’s hair and shoul­ders.
    — **Dari**: One of Afghanistan’s two pri­ma­ry lan­guages.
    — **Eid**: A sig­nif­i­cant Mus­lim fes­ti­val mark­ing the end of Ramadan.
    — **karachi**: A hand-pushed cart used for sell­ing goods in mar­kets.
    — **kebab**: Skew­ered and grilled pieces of meat.
    — **land mine**: A soil-embed­ded bomb trig­gered by pres­sure.
    — **nan**: Afghan bread that comes in var­i­ous shapes.
    — **Pash­tu**: The sec­ond major lan­guage spo­ken in Afghanistan.
    — **pat­tu**: A tra­di­tion­al woolen shawl worn by men and boys.
    — **shal­war kameez**: A tra­di­tion­al out­fit con­sist­ing of a long shirt and trousers, dif­fer­ing in style between men and women.
    — **Sovi­ets**: Refers to the for­mer Sovi­et Union, encom­pass­ing Rus­sia and its affil­i­at­ed com­mu­nist nations.
    — **Tal­iban**: The mil­i­tant group that seized con­trol of Kab­ul in 1996, lat­er oust­ed in 2001.
    — **toshak**: A nar­row mat­tress, com­mon­ly uti­lized in Afghan house­holds as a sub­sti­tute for chairs or beds.

    This glos­sary pro­vides cru­cial insights into the cul­tur­al prac­tices, lan­guage, and sig­nif­i­cant his­tor­i­cal ref­er­ences inher­ent to Afghan soci­ety, facil­i­tat­ing read­ers’ bet­ter under­stand­ing of the nar­ra­tive’s set­ting and themes. The def­i­n­i­tions aim to famil­iar­ize read­ers with terms that may not be com­mon­ly known out­side of Afghanistan, reflect­ing the book’s empha­sis on the soci­etal and cul­tur­al land­scape that shapes the char­ac­ters’ lives. The knowl­edge of these terms enhances read­ers’ com­pre­hen­sion of the char­ac­ters’ dai­ly strug­gles, tra­di­tions, and their inter­ac­tions with­in the con­text of the sto­ry, por­tray­ing a vivid pic­ture of life in Afghanistan dur­ing a tumul­tuous peri­od.

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