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Sheffield Book Club6.30pm, Sunday 3 October 2004 Café 9
The Poisonwood Bible tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. The 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 all 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. This tale of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction, over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa, is set against one of history's most dramatic political parables. "The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is an engrossing story of one family's transformation over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. Religion, politics, race, 'sin and redemption' are woven through the accounts of family members as they struggle to adjust to life in Africa against the backdrop of the independence of the Congo and the involvement of the CIA and the imperial powers in the death of independence leader Patrice Lumumba." Michael Lavalette, Socialist Review |
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