FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010
'Breathtaking.' Sunday Times
'Beautiful.' Independent
'Funny, terrifying and heartbreaking.' Mail on Sunday
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, including Barack Obama.
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.
What readers are saying
***** 'This remains one of the most fascinating books I have ever read.'
***** 'I felt every emotion under the sky with this book.'
***** 'Riveting.'
***** 'This novel left a lasting - YEARS LASTING - impression.'
***** 'This is one of those booksthat stands the test of time and is worth rereading.'
***** 'Five epic, no-wonder-this-book-is-so-well-loved stars!'
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-571-38082-4 (9780571380824)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of ten novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the 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 has both won and been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
