The Poisonwood Bible

New York Times Bestseller - An Oprah Book Club Pick

"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 10/07/1998
ISBN: 9780060175405
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.87lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.46w x 1.74d
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/10/1998 pg. 366
Library Journal 09/01/1998 pg. 214
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/1998 pg. 1219
New York Times 10/18/1998 pg. 7
New York Times 12/06/1998 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 41
Best of Book Sense/First 5 Yrs 04/01/2004 pg. 1
Library Journal 07/01/1998
Foreword 01/01/2005 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 107
People Weekly 11/09/2009 pg. 53
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 103
Entertainment Weekly 08/22/2014 pg. 113

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 35204 / Poisonwood Bible
Reading Level: 6.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 29