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• Sales Rank: #8094599 in Books
  
• Published on: 1998
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 543 pages

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Five stars down to two in parts, but settled on a four.
By Wisigoth
There are many reviewers who can give you a wonderful synopsis of The Poisonwood Bible, so I will concentrate on commenting on my own enjoyment of this book. There's no doubting the skill, knowledge and competence of Barbara Kingsolver to tell a tale, to educate and to conjure a wide range of emotions in her reader. I loved the characters, who made me angry, amused me, inspired me and kept me gripped for the first three quarters of the book. For a long way through I was mentally awarding five stars, and couldn't wait for a chance to pick up the book and continue.My interest waned when the last part of the book (3 hours at my reading speed) was dragged out, in my opinion, from the the point the family went their separate ways. I wasn't, like some reviewers, bored with the politics, which I found enlightening. What bored me was the detailed introspection, with the exception of Rachel, whom I found amusing, as each character philosophised on life and much more. For me, it was interesting to know what happened to them all but this should have been a short epilogue. Ultimately, because the book was so good for so long, I settled on a four. However, I'd give reservations when recommending it and I don't feel I could face another Kingsolver for quite a long time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Five stars
By Joanne Sheppard
The Poisonwood Bible is the story of five women, the wife and four daughters of a Nathan Price, an evangelical Southern Baptist minister from Georgia who in 1959 takes his family to what was then the Belgian Congo so he can carry out missionary work. As a family, they are hopelessly ill-prepared for the culture shock and hardships of life in a Congolese village, both physically and emotionally. The story begins with them packing 'all the wrong things' to take with them on their journey. Upon arrival, the painfully stubborn, dogmatic Nathan Price immediately sets about planting a vegetable garden which, thanks to his refusal to listen to their Congolese housekeeper's advice, fails. Their preconceived notions about race and religion are bigoted and patronising. And in the background, the Congolese struggle for independence, and all the accompanying interference from the West, rumbles on.Told from the five points of view of each woman - Nathan's wife Orleanna, 16-year-old Rachel, 14-year-old twins Leah and Adah and five-year-old Ruth May - The Poisonwood Bible has a fairly epic scope, spanning around 30 years, and yet each woman's story is deeply personal. Each narrator has her own distinctive voice, values and vision. The unashamedly selfish Rachel peppers her speech with unintentional malapropisms; her language, like her views on race and politics, is carelessly skewed. Adah, academically gifted but physically disabled by a brain injury at birth and possibly affected by some form of autism, is prone to reading things backwards and obsessed by palindromes and linguistic patterns. Language in general is important in the story: inflections are misunderstood, concepts are untranslatable, and translation becomes symbolic of the vast differences between the Prices' way of life and that of their new Congolese neighbours. Everything the Prices bring from America somehow fails to 'translate' when it reaches Africa, whether it's the powdered cake mix ruined by equatorial humidity, Nathan Price's uncompromising sermons that leave his congregation alienated and confused, or the family's preconceived notions about the Congo and its people.This is a long and sometimes rambling book, and the further the story progresses, the less deftly the (albeit fascinating) exploration of post-colonial African politics are woven into the narrative, and the particular voices and states of mind of the characters make some chapters a little hard-going in comparison to others. Overall, though, this is a beautifully written and absorbing novel with fascinating characters and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Shall I or shan't I read this book
By Rickleby
Clearly I ended up doing the former...and I am now very self-congratulatory that I did. This is an amazingly powerful novel...written in the first person by 5 different people (but actually the immensely talented Ms Kingsolver writing all of them). It's the story of a bullying, godfearing, wife and child beating Baptist missionary who drags his family to a small ethnic village in the depths of the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) for the purpose of converting Africa to his version of Christianity. His family (a wife and 4 daughters) tell the story through their own "diaries" each having a very different perspective on their experience. Without giving much away, an event occurs that changes all of their lives forever. The really clever aspect of the writing is that the author uses the fallout of this event seen from the very differing perspectives of the female personalities in the family to express alternative philosophies on Africa and Christianity and indeed life in general. The book has moments of great sadness but moments of humour too (one of the daughters being a latterday Mrs Malaprop). Overall this is a truly wonderful read...even though at first I wondered if I could stand nearly 600 pages of life in Africa!

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