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.
This new edition for 2017 features a cover design by award-winning fashion designer,Tina Lobondi. 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.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571339792Number of pages: 640Weight: 525 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 38 mmEdition: Main
Barbara Kingsolver
An ecologist and biologist by training,Barbara Kingsolver shifted into fiction in 1988 and within a decade produced the masterfulThe Poisonwood Bible, a novel echoing her own year-long experience of living in the Congo. Winner of many awards,her subsequent books have often charted our own relationships with our environment,particularly the stunning Flight Behaviour of 2012,a story describing the subtle but real impact of climate change in rural Tennessee.
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