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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| Narrator: |
Dean Roberston |
| Fiction Genre: |
Juvenile Fiction · |
| Awards: |
1999 Pulitzer Prize |
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Professional Reviews
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Leonard, John, Nation: "...Barbara Kingsolver has dreamed a magnificent fiction and a ferocious bill of indictment." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Audio - Audio Cassette Publisher: Brilliance Audio (November 01, 1998) Measurements: 7.5"(h) x 4.25"(w) x 2.5"(d), 0.9 lbs. ISBN: 9781567404081 |
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. My sisters and I were all counting on having one birthday apiece during our twelve-month mission. "And heaven knows," our mother predicted, "they won't have Betty Crocker in the Congo." |
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In 1959, Nathan Price, a evangelical Baptist who has taken his wife and four daughters on a mission to the Belgian Congo, finds that their traditions are no longer secure in this very different world, in a powerful story set against the backdrop of the Congo's battle for independence from Belgium. Reissue. 50,000 first printing. |
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