Kingsolver, Barbara

The poisonwood Bible : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver. - First ed - x, 546 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-546).

The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters.

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Americans--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Fiction.
Missionaries--Fiction.


Democratic Republic of the Congo--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PS3561.I496 / P65 1998

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