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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/1998

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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.
ISBN:
9780756984441
9780756984441
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-01-1998
Publisher:
Turtleback
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
543
Dimensions (mm):
193x135x30mm
Weight:
0.48kg
Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is one of the most important voices of our time. Barbara Kingsolver’s previous fourteen works of fiction and non-fiction have been translated into dozens of languages and earned a devoted readership.

She won the Orange Prize in 2010 for The Lacuna and her novel Flight Behaviour was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

In 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, her country's highest honour for service through the arts. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

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