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Kingsolver, Barbara.

The poisonwood Bible : a novel / - 1st ed. - New York : HarperFlamingo, c1998. - x, 546 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-546).

Genesis -- The revelation -- The judges -- Bel and the serpent -- Exodus -- Song of the three children -- The eyes in the trees.

The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.

NHSL Nominee for the Dublin Award, 2000

ISBN: 0060175400 9780060175405

LCCN: 98019901

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Americans--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Fiction.
Missionaries--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Christian missionaries--Congo--Fiction.
Culture conflict--Congo--Fiction.
Christian families--Congo--Fiction.
Americans--Congo--Fiction.
Baptists--Congo--Fiction.
Colonialism--Congo--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3561.I496 / P65 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54