The Poisonwood Bible American Classics Edition

A Novel

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<p><b><i>New York Times</i> Bestseller • An Oprah Book Club Pick</b></p><p><b>“Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion,</b> <b>politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i></b></p><p><b>In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this</b> <b>library of American classics drawn from our storied catalog. <i>The Poisonwood Bible</i> established</b> <b>Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking</b> <b>its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one</b> <b>family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa.</b></p><p>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.</p><p>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. 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 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 arr

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780063484115

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

209 x 146 x 45 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA