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The Poisonwood Bible (1998)

por Barbara Kingsolver

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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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    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.… (mais)
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I adore Barbara Kingsolvers' works - all of them; but this is not my favorite. It's between The Lacuna, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle..... ( )
  schoenbc70 | Sep 2, 2023 |
This is an exceptionally good novel. The story of a missionary and his family who travel from backwoods Georgia to the even more primitive and God-forsaken Belgian Congo has echoes of Joseph Conrad but they are unobtrusive and serve to highlight the book's originality. The novel is told in chapters, with each in the voice of either the Mother, Orleana, or one of the four daughters, Rachel, Leah, Adah and Ruth May. The father, Nathan Price, is the most Conradian character who bears a heavy cross of guilt from his experience as the lone survivor of a massacre that wiped out his battalion. The story moves across the ocean a few times and within Africa but it never loses its momentum or focus. Biblical references abound to good effect. The characters are extremely well-drawn and voiced. This This 614 page novel, covering four decades, is a long journey, but it is not without humor and the writing climbs to brilliant heights in several chapters. The frequent changes in narrator keeps the energy high. Looking forward to reading more Kingsolver. A native of Appalachia, she might have had her region in mind for some of this story. ( )
  brook11trout | Aug 27, 2023 |
I've read this book twice and it remains on my top ten list. Kingsolver reveals to story through the distinct voices of five sisters in a way that is mesmerizing. ( )
  rebwaring | Aug 14, 2023 |
The writing made the characters so real to me that I just wanted to shout at them and shake them into seeing what the hell was really going on. This book made me furious, and I highly recommend it to all. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Interesting and intense at the start. Lingered a little long for me at the end ( )
  vdt_melbourne | Jul 20, 2023 |
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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.
adicionada por Shortride | editarNewsweek (Nov 9, 1998)
 
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.
adicionada por Shortride | editarTime, 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.''
adicionada por Shortride | editarThe New York Times Book Review, Verlyn Klinkenborg (Oct 18, 1998)
 
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.
adicionada por jlelliott | editarThe New York Times, Michiko Kakutani (Oct 16, 1998)
 
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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.
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
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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