The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 04/09/2008

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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.


'Breathtaking.' Sunday Times


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'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.


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ISBN:
9780571246212
9780571246212
Category:
Religious & spiritual fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-09-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
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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