The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Contents
Author's Note ix
Book One GENESIS I
Book Two THE REVELATION 83
Book Three THE JUDGES 187
Book Four 5EL AND THE SERPENT 313
Book Five EXODUS 377
Book six SONG or THE THREE CHILDREN 507
Book Seven THE EYES IN THE TREES 535
Bibliography 545
Author's Note
THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. Its principal characters are pure inventions with no relations on this earth, as far as I know. But the Congo in which I placed them is genuine. The historical figures and events described here are as real as I could render them with the help of recorded history, in all its fascinating variations.
Because I wasn't able to enter Zaire while researching and writing the novel, I relied on memory, travel in other parts of Africa, and many people's accounts of the natural, cultural, and social history of the Congo/Zaire. Such is the diversity and value of these sources