The Poisonwood Bible Novel By Barbara Kingsolver (PDF-Summary-Review-Online Reading-Download)

The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, Prices, which in 1959 moved from the American state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo near the Kwilu River. The novel’s title refers to Biblical misprints. The father of the family creates his own “imprint” of the Bible. He concludes his sermons with the Kikongo expression “Tata Jesús es bängala” with the intention of saying “Jesus is the most precious”. In his hasty mispronunciation, he actually says “Jesus is poisonous wood.

Book Details

TitleThe Poisonwood Bible
AuthorBarbara Kingsolver
TypeNovel
Year of Publication1998
LanguageEnglish
File FormatPDF
Number of Pages546

The Poisonwood Bible Summary

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 think they will need from home, but You will soon discover that everything from garden seeds to scripture is direly transformed into African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of the tragic destruction of a family and the remarkable rebuilding over three decades in post-colonial Africa.

The Poisonwood Bible Review

Beautifully written. . . Kingsolver’s domestic tragedy story is more than a well-told thread. . . Played in the bloody context of the political struggles in the Congo that continue to this day, it is also particularly timely.

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About The Author of The Book Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction, including the novels, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her body of work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

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The Poisonwood Bible Quotes

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I’ve only found sorrow.

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