The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0060930535 Global Overview for this book
Registered by illinicheme of Novato, California USA on 9/20/2003
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Journal Entry 1 by illinicheme from Novato, California USA on Saturday, September 20, 2003
Wow. This book blew me away. I have enjoyed several of Kingsolver's novels, but this one is head and shoulders above the others. The writing is beautiful, the story is poignant, and the structure of the novel is excellent. I loved the characters, particularly Adah.

Many books suffer from excessive hype, but this is not one of them. It was far better than I expected it to be.

Sending along to JDT via the bookrelays. Enjoy!

Journal Entry 2 by JDT from Pleasanton, California USA on Wednesday, August 4, 2004
So happy to have a copy of this book again! I thought it was wonderful - and disturbing, when our book group read it a few years ago.
Thanks so much for your book relay, illinicheme!

Journal Entry 3 by JDT from Pleasanton, California USA on Saturday, August 14, 2004
Wonderful - my husband received a copy of this powerful book, so I was able to offer this copy again on the book relay!
Sending to gill846 in Victoria, BC.

Journal Entry 4 by gill846 from Victoria, British Columbia Canada on Thursday, September 2, 2004
Received this in the mail yesterday. This has been recommended to me by a number of people, so I can't wait to read it! Thanks!

Journal Entry 5 by Sobergirl from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Thursday, July 7, 2005
Thanks for trading gill846!

Journal Entry 6 by Sobergirl from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Thursday, July 7, 2005
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?

In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.

Barbara Kingsolver



Journal Entry 7 by Sobergirl from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Friday, August 5, 2005
I didn't finish reading this book. I couldn't get a grip of it. I thought the story stamped in one place, didn't go much forward at all.
This preacher guy drags his family to Africa and it's not at all what they had expected.
I got tired of their moaning after 200 pages.

Released 18 yrs ago (8/8/2005 UTC) at Maailmankauppa-store in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland

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