Title: The Poisonwood Bible
First published: May 23, 2003
Description: The Poisonwood Bible is a story 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. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Subjects: Missionaries, Fiction, Americans, Families, Religious fundamentalism, History, Fiction, historical, general, Africa, fiction, Missionaries, fiction, Literature, Family, open_syllabus_project, Colonialism, Christian missionaries, Literary, Culture conflict, Historical fiction, Baptists, Fiction, historical, Americans in Africa, Emotionally abusive men, Religious fanatics, Christian families, Americans in Congo, Large type books, nyt:e-book-fiction=2013-01-27, New York Times bestseller, Evangelical Mission, Murder, Lierary Fiction, Postcolonial Africa, Racism, War of Independence, Political, Fiction, general, Ficción, Estadounidenses, Misionarios
Places: Congo (Democratic Republic), Belgian Congo
Time periods: 1960-, 1960-1997, 1959