The Poisonwood Bible
A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver
A family of evangelical Baptists set out on a mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, but soon find that everything they brought with them, from garden seeds to Scripture, is transformed on African soil. What ensues is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
Publish Date
2005-05-31T00:00:00.000Z
2005-05-31T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1998
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4.09
ISBN
9780060786502
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