

Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions The Poisonwood Bible, Book 8, (Paperback)
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- Deluxe Edition: This Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features beautiful cover art on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages.
- Literary Recognition: The book is a New York Times Bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, also selected for Oprah's Book Club.
- Narrative Perspective: The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist missionary in the Belgian Congo.
- Historical Setting: The novel is set against the dramatic political backdrop of the Congo's fight for independence in the 20th century.
- Thematic Exploration: It explores themes of religion, politics, race, sin, redemption, moral risk, and personal responsibility.
- Publication Details: This paperback edition was published on 2008-06-10, has an ISBN of 9780061577079, and contains 576 pages.
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- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionFiction
- GenreLiterature & Fiction
- Pub date20050101
- Pages576
- Reading levelGeneral
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New York Times Bestseller - Pulitzer Prize Finalist - 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 Review
The 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. This special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features beautiful cover art on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages, making it the perfect gift book.
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 replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters--the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
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