# The Poisonwood Bible

**Author(s):** Aurora Ballester Gasso, Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Robertson
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, history, historical-fiction
**Pages:** 576
**Publisher:** Faber & Faber, Limited
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 1998 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780061436741
**ISBN-10:** 159355950X
**ASIN:** 159355950X
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > United States
**Amazon binding:** $18.86
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## 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.

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**Themes:** Religion & Faith