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| Verlag | HarperCollins US |
| Auflage | 2012 |
| Seiten | 688 |
| Gewicht | 312 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0062213709 |
| EAN | 9780062213709 |
| Bestell-Nr | 06221370EA |
Erzählt wird die Geschichte einer amerikanischen Familie im belgischen Kongo. Es ist eine Zeit außergewöhnlicher politischer und sozialer Umwälzungen. Aus der Sicht der Ehefrau und der vier Töchter des Nathan Price, einem strenggläubigen Baptisten, der mit seiner Familie 1959 in den Kongo geht, um eine Mission zu gründen, werden die Geschehnisse offen und einfühlsam beschrieben. Es ist nicht nur die Geschichte eines tragischen Scheiterns, sondern auch die eines Wiederfindens einer Familie im postkolonialen Afrika über dreißg Jahre hinweg.
Kurzbeschreibung:
Barbara Kingsolver's magnum opus and biggest bestseller to date, now available for the first time in an international mass market edition! 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, The Poisonwood Bible is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over three decades in postcolonial Africa.
Klappentext:
"A powerful new epic . . . [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 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.The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel establishes Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers.
Rezension:
"There are few ambitious, successful and beautiful novels. Lucky for us, we have one now, in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible . . . this awed reviewer hardly knows where to begin." Jane Smiley, Washington Post Book World