The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver is the bestselling author of ten novels, including Unsheltered, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction books. Her narrative nonfiction work includes the best-selling Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into over twenty languages, earning her literary awards and a devoted following both at home and abroad. For her body of work, she received the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by Nathan Price's wife and four daughters, who travel to the Belgian Congo with his family and mission in 1959. They bring everything they think they'll need from home, but everything—from garden seeds to Scripture—is disastrously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic about one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction in postcolonial Africa over three decades.

The novel is set against one of the twentieth century's most dramatic political sagas: the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium, the assassination 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. This ambitious novel establishes Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring modern writers, standing alongside classic works of postcolonial literature.

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

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