Barbara Kingsolver's internationally bestselling, suspenseful epic, covered in a fabric from the Liberty archive. FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010'Breathtaking.' Sunday Times'Beautiful.' Independent'Funny, terrifying and heartbreaking.' Mail on SundayAn 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.

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