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By (author) Kingsolver Barbara
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A story that is 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.
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An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family”s tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstruction has been read, adored and shared by millions around the world.
”A masterpiece.” MARIAN KEYES
”Breathtaking.” Sunday Times
”Exquisite.” The Times
”Beautiful.” Independent
”Powerful.” New York Times
This story is 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 readers are saying
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***** ”This is one of those books that stands the test of time and is worth rereading.”
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Biographical note:
Barbara Kingsolver”s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership. In 2010 she won the Orange Prize for The Lacuna and her 2012 novel Flight Behaviour was shortlisted for the Women”s Prize for Fiction. 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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An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family”s tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstruction has been read, adored and shared by millions around the world.
This new edition for 2017 features a cover design by award-winning fashion designer, Tina Lobondi.
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Breathtaking.
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A book club classic . . . There is humour, history, love and loss.
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A brilliantly realised epic of one family”s journey to the heart of darkness.
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An updated, dysfunctional version of Louisa May Alcott”s Little Women . . . it pours forth ideas about good and evil, civilization and savagery, and the unlikely nature of redemption.
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Provocative and affecting . . . illustrates how profoundly both women and the world have changed.
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Soaringly panoramic… the jungle throbs with life and death – every aspect unnervingly convincing.
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Funny, terrifying and heartbreaking.
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What triumphs is Kingsolver”s gentle good humour, the ingenuity of the strong women characters and a universal human spirit . . . The Poisonwood Bible ranks with the most ambitious works of post-colonial literature and it should es
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