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The poisonwood Bible

Author
Kingsolver, Barbara.

 

Publisher
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005.
Description
x, 546, 18 p. ; 21 cm.
Call #
FIC Kingsolver
Summary
Reprint with "P.S., insights, interviews & more" section. Previously published: New York : HarperFlamingo, 1998. The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters.
Subjects
Americans Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN #
9780061577079

 

ID #
1265912

 

Reviews and Notes

Summary/Annotation ->  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 itâ#128;#148;from garden seeds to Scriptureâ#128;#148;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.

Availability

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