The poisonwood Bible : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
By: Kingsolver, Barbara
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TextPublisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 2005, c1999Edition: 1st Harper Perennial modern classics edDescription: x, 546, 16 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0060786507 (pbk.)Subject(s): Missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction | Americans -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction | Families -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1960-1997 -- FictionLOC classification: PS 3561 | .K56 2005Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-546).
Book 1. Genesis -- Book 2. The Revelation -- Book 3. The Judges -- Book 4. Bel and the Serpent -- Book 5. Exodus -- Book 6. Song of the Three Children -- Book 7. The Eyes in the Trees.
"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. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
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