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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (1998 original; edició 2005)

de Barbara Kingsolver (Autor)

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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.
Membre:MMKY
Títol:The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Autors:Barbara Kingsolver (Autor)
Informació:Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2005), Edition: 1st, 545 pages
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Valoració:*****
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La Bíblia de l'arbre del verí de Barbara Kingsolver (1998)

  1. 235
    The Help de Kathryn Stockett (paulkid)
    paulkid: Race relations on different continents, told from multiple female perspectives.
  2. 183
    The Red Tent de Anita Diamant (derelicious)
  3. 140
    Tot se'n va en orris de Chinua Achebe (jlelliott)
    jlelliott: Each tells the story of Christian missionaries in Africa, one from the perspective of the missionaries, one from the perspective of the local people targeted for "salvation".
  4. 152
    Estiu pròdig de Barbara Kingsolver (Booksloth)
  5. 131
    Cutting for Stone de Abraham Verghese (momofthreewi)
    momofthreewi: Both are rich in character development and centered around unique families.
  6. 132
    Arbres de mongetes de Barbara Kingsolver (kraaivrouw)
  7. 90
    Plora, pàtria estimada de Alan Paton (allenmichie)
  8. 90
    El cor de les tenebres de Joseph Conrad (WSB7)
    WSB7: Both about "colonialisms" abuses in the Congo, among other themes.
  9. 90
    Viatge a l'Índia de E. M. Forster (lucyknows)
    lucyknows: You could use the theme of colonialism to pair The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver with Passage to India by E. M. Forster.
  10. 102
    Out of Africa de Isak Dinesen (allenmichie)
  11. 113
    The Mosquito Coast de Paul Theroux (whirled)
  12. 92
    The Lacuna de Barbara Kingsolver (GreenVelvet)
  13. 103
    El déu de les coses petites de Arundhati Roy (kiwiflowa)
  14. 71
    King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa de Adam Hochschild (baobab)
  15. 50
    The Book of Negroes de Lawrence Hill (Bcteagirl)
    Bcteagirl: The book has a similar familial tone and is also told from the point of view of young girls growing up in a difficult situation. I had been looking for a book with a similar writing style and was happy to find this one. If you liked The Book of Negroes I recommend The Poisonwood Bible and vice versa.… (més)
  16. 40
    Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart de Tim Butcher (CatherineRM)
    CatherineRM: I love both these books and they nicely juxtapose each other with their Congo total immersion albeit one fictional and one factual. Tim Butcher traces the Congo River from its source through the dense equatorial land that the protagonist of the Kingsolver book occupied with his suffering family. Both books made a lasting impression on me and I have great time for Africa as I lived in Tanzania - close to Congo geographically for most of the time - and it has a big place in my heart. Read both books and be enriched!… (més)
  17. 40
    Jesus Land: A Memoir de Julia Scheeres (literarysarah)
  18. 30
    State of Wonder de Ann Patchett (sweetbug)
    sweetbug: Similar themes of conflict between two cultures, Westerners living and working in an exotic and dangerous land, and parents / surrogate parents protecting (or not) their children from harm.
  19. 20
    The Civilized World de Susi Wyss (ShortStoryLover)
    ShortStoryLover: Although it's much shorter than Poisonwood, The Civilized World also has multiple points of view from female perspectives and the chapters are almost all set in various parts of present-day Africa.
  20. 20
    My Notorious Life de Kate Manning (wandergirl881)
    wandergirl881: Well researched historical fiction

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Kingsolver once wrote that ""The point [of portraying other cultures] is not to emulate other lives, or usurp their wardrobes. The point is to find sense.'' Her effort to make sense of the Congo's tragic struggle for independence is fully realized, richly embroidered, triumphant.
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A writer who casts a preacher as a fool and a villain had best not be preachy. Kingsolver manages not to be, in part because she is a gifted magician of words--her sleight-of-phrase easily distracting a reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books.
afegit per Shortride | editaTime, John Skow (Nov 9, 1998)
 
The Congo permeates ''The Poisonwood Bible,'' and yet this is a novel that is just as much about America, a portrait, in absentia, of the nation that sent the Prices to save the souls of a people for whom it felt only contempt, people who already, in the words of a more experienced missionary, ''have a world of God's grace in their lives, along with a dose of hardship that can kill a person entirely.''
 
Although ''The Poisonwood Bible'' takes place in the former Belgian Congo and begins in 1959 and ends in the 1990's, Barbara Kingsolver's powerful new book is actually an old-fashioned 19th-century novel, a Hawthornian tale of sin and redemption and the ''dark necessity'' of history.
 

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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Kingsolver, Barbaraautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Ahokas, JuhaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Alou, DamiánTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ballester, AuroraTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Beard, ElliottDissenyadorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Belleteste, GuillemetteTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Frank-Strauss, Anne R.autor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Klinge, BenteTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Metz, JulieDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Meyer, HanTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Mulder, ArjenTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Post, MaaikeTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite figure the two of them living in the same house.
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While my husband's intentions crystallized as rock salt, and while I preoccupied myself with private survival, the Congo breathed behind the curtain of forest, preparing to roll over us like a river.
Overpopulation has deforested 3/4 of Africa, yielding drought, famine, and the probable extinction of all animals most beloved by children and zoos.... Africa has a thousand ways of cleaning itself. Driver ants, Ebola virus, AIDS, all these are brooms devised by nature to sweep a small clearing very well.
Back home we have the most glorious garden each and every summer, so it's only natural that my father thought to bring over seeds in his pockets: Kentucky Wonder beans, crookneck and patty-pan squash, Big Boy tomatoes. He planned to make a demonstration garden, from which we'd gather a harvest for our table and also supply food and seeds to the villagers. It was to be our first African miracle: an infinite chain of benevolence rising from these small, crackling seed packets, stretching out from our garden into a circle of other gardens, flowing outward across the Congo like ripples from a rock dropped in a pond.... Father started clearing a pot of ground out of the jungle's edge near our house, and packing off rows.... He beat down a square of tall grass and wild pink flowers ... Then he bent over and began to rip out long handfuls of grass with quick, energetic jerks as though tearing out the hair of the world.... "Leah," he enquired, "why do you think the Lord gave us seeds to grow, instead of having our dinner just spring up out there on the ground like a bunch of field rocks? Because the Lord helps those that help themselves."
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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.

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