The poisonwood Bible
a novel
by Barbara Kingsolver and Dean Robertson
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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. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy.
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Missionaries, Fiction, Americans, Families, Religious fundamentalism, History, Fiction, historical, general, Africa, fiction, Missionaries, fiction, Literature, Family, open_syllabus_project, Colonialism, Christian missionaries, Literary, Culture conflict, Historical fiction, Baptists, Fiction, historical, Americans in Africa, Emotionally abusive men, Religious fanatics, Christian families, Americans in Congo, Large type books, nyt:e-book-fiction=2013-01-27, New York Times bestseller, Evangelical Mission, Murder, Lierary Fiction, Postcolonial Africa, Racism, War of Independence, Political, Fiction, generalShowing 8 featured editions. View all 41 editions?
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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
May 31, 2005, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, HarperPerennial
in English
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The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)
October 1, 1999, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
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The poisonwood Bible: a novel
1999, HarperPerennial
in English
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The poisonwood Bible: a novel
1999, HarperPerennial
in English
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The poisonwood Bible: a novel
1998, HarperFlamingo, Harper & Row
in English
0965684784 9780965684781
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The poisonwood Bible: a novel
1998, HarperFlamingo
Hardcover
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-546).
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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.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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