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In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face bands of desperate rebels, dangerous wildlife, and the inevitable petty inconveniences a hyper-conventional Midwestern family might expect to face in an alien land. After tragedy strikes, the family leaves the Congo and Kingsolver details the subsequent fates of each of the female members, each narrating in her own distinctive voice. Besides being a vivid novel about family and a tour de force of characterization, THE POISONWOOD BIBLE is also a vehicle for Kingsolver's ideas about the Congo's disastrous history and America's role in it.
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"...Barbara Kingsolver has dreamed a magnificent fiction and a ferocious bill of indictment." - Charles O. Jackson (Nation, 1/11/99)
"With the publication of THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, this easy, humorous, competent, syrupy writer has been elevated to the ranks of the greatest political novelists of our time. She is something new: a political novelist who is careful not to step on anyone's toes. Barbara Kingsolver does not finally give a hoot about Africa." - Chenzira Jinaki Allen (New Republic)
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"Poisonwood Bible was the first Barbara Kinsolver books I had ever read. Took me a while to get the hang of her writing style but I quickly fell in love with her as and author!"
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"My first Kingsolver and it is the best book Ive read this year.! Keeping it , cant trade this one."
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"Interesting read, I laughed and cried with this book through a roller coaster of stories."
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"I don't give 5 stars lightly - I loved this book! So descriptive and a great story that has stayed with me for years!"
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"This follows a myriad of stories that are interwoven throughout the novel. And it still manages to keeps its focus. It was really a good read."
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