The Poisonwood Bible

　　締造蟬聯暢銷榜連續一百三十七週驚人記錄的當代傳奇經典！

　　1959年，一名美國南方福音浸信會的牧師Nathan Price帶著妻子與四個女兒赴比利時的殖民地非洲剛果宣教，希望能使未開化的非洲人改信基督教。等到進入這片蠻荒的黑暗大陸後，牧師一家人才體認到當初出發時的準備有多麼不足，以及為了達到目的，他們需要付出多大的代價……。

　　小說中設定的那段時間，正值剛果人民試圖以武力爭取獨立，全書便以牧師妻子與其四個女兒的角度出發，從第一人稱的方式娓娓道出在高壓威迫、危機四伏的內戰下，驚險萬分的三十年非洲生活。

(文/博客來編譯)

　　The Poisonwood Bible is a story 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 follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

作者簡介

　　Barbara Kingsolver is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novels The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction such as Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.