The poisonwood bible: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction - Brossura

Kingsolver, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0571339794 ISBN 13: 9780571339792

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2017

Riassunto

An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstruction has been read, adored and shared by millions around the world.This new edition for 2017 features a cover design by award-winning fashion designer, Tina Lobondi. This story is 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.

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Recensione:

Breathtaking. (Sunday Times)

A book club classic . . . There is humour, history, love and loss. (The Times)

A brilliantly realised epic of one family's journey to the heart of darkness. (Independent)

An updated, dysfunctional version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women . . . it pours forth ideas about good and evil, civilization and savagery, and the unlikely nature of redemption. (Sunday Times)

Provocative and affecting . . . illustrates how profoundly both women and the world have changed. (Claire Messud)

Soaringly panoramic... the jungle throbs with life and death - every aspect unnervingly convincing. (Julie Myerson)

Funny, terrifying and heartbreaking. (Mail on Sunday)

What triumphs is Kingsolver's gentle good humour, the ingenuity of the strong women characters and a universal human spirit . . . The Poisonwood Bible ranks with the most ambitious works of post-colonial literature and it should establish Kingsolver's reputation as one of America's most gifted novelists. (Gavin Essler Independent on Sunday)

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An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstruction has been read, adored and shared by millions around the world. This new edition for 2017 features a cover design by award-winning fashion designer, Tina Lobondi.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571339794
• ISBN 13: 9780571339792
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 640