The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

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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, The Poisonwood Bibleis the story of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. They carry with them all 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.

Book Details

ISBN13	9780571201754
ISBN10	057120175X
Series/Work	OL1846846W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Language	ENG
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	January 30, 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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