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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.

»Als hätten die Coen-Brüder Dickens verfilmt.« The Times

»Jeder weiß, dass alle, die in diese Welt geboren werden, von Anfang an gezeichnet sind - Gewinner wie Verlierer.«

Ein Trailer in den Wäldern Virginias, dem Land der Tabakfarmer und Schwarzbrenner, der Hillbilly-Cadillac-Stoßstangenaufkleber an rostigen Pickups. Hier kommt Demon Copperhead zur Welt - die Mutter ist noch ein Teenie und frisch auf Entzug, der Vater tot. Ein Junge mit kupferroten Haaren, großer Klappe und einem zähen Überlebenswillen,...

Patchett, the New York Times-bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with a moving story exploring the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.

"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words."
--Time

The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work. Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in...

»Ebenso klug wie wortmächtig.« Denis Scheck

#1 New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century (Readers' Choice)

»Vielleicht der beste Roman des Jahres.« Washington Post

Ein Triumph und ein großes Lesevergnügen: Der Millionenbestseller aus den USA, über ein Leben gegen alle Widerstände.

Ein Trailer in den Wäldern Virginias, dem Land der Tabakfarmer und Schwarzbrenner, der Hillbilly-Cadillac-Stoßstangenaufkleber an rostigen Pickups. Hier kommt Demon Copperhead zur Welt - die...

The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West.

Written with humor and pathos, this highly praised novel focuses on love and friendship, abandonment and...

Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her "extravagantly gifted narrative voice" (New York Times Book Review), has created with this novel a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist,...

A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse-and his efforts to conquer them. - the PulitzerSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKWITH OVER 26,000 5* REVIEWS'Extraordinary.' OPRAH'She means to save us by telling us stories. .

. She comes closer than anyone else I...

In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds--an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events.

Davon, was es bedeutet, eine Zuflucht zu haben in der Welt

Von der gefeierten Autorin von 'Demon Copperhead': ein großer Roman über zwei Menschen, 150 Jahre voneinander entfernt, die sich auf ihre Weisen zurechtfinden müssen in einer aus den Fugen geratenen Welt.

Alles scheint um Willa Knox zusammenzubrechen: Als freie Journalistin steht sie ohne Aufträge da. Ihr Mann Iano verliert seine Professur, Sohn Zeke, als Harvard-Absolvent der große Hoffnungsträger der Familie, ist gerade Vater geworden - aber...