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The poisonwood Bible : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver

By:

Kingsolver, Barbara

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : HarperFlamingo , c1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 546 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780060175405

Subject(s):

Congo -- -History -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

FIC KIN

Summary: 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 -i s 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Infantil	General	FIC KIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	Fiction	07/12/2024	002453

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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 -i s 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.

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