The Poisonwood Bible
#732 of 8,085 books · #432 in Fiction
Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1999), the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1999), and the Women's Prize for Fiction (1999).
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.
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- Barnes & Noble
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- 9788484370222
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Awards
- PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
- Women's Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
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- Demon Copperhead (2022)3 wins · 39 score
- The Lacuna (2009)1 win · 20 score
- Pigs in Heaven (1993)1 win · 12 score
- Flight Behaviour (2012)0 wins · 4 score
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