About this work of fiction
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Robertson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection“Powerful... [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa.The 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.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 r
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Robertson
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060512828
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, History