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The Poisonwood Bible
Hardcover
Series: Oprah's Book Club
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $34.00
ISBN13: 9780060175405
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: Oct 7 1998
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.87
Height: 1.74 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award
New York Times Bestseller - An Oprah Book Club Pick
Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty. --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers.
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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