The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

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The Poisonwood Bibleis 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.

Book Details

ISBN13	9780061577079
ISBN10	0061577073
Series/Work	OL1846846W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages	576
Language	EN
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	April 18, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

Subjects

Africa, fiction Americans Americans in Africa Americans in Congo Baptists Christian families Christian missionaries Colonialism Culture conflict Emotionally abusive men Evangelical Mission Families Family Fiction Fiction, general Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Historical fiction History Large type books

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