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From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world.At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregri...

From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world.At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregri...

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A story that 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.

Nella terra dei Turnbow - un pascolo, un laghetto e un'amena fattoria ai piedi degli Appalachi meridionali - il cielo di novembre sembra un manto sbiadito quando Dellarobia si avventura da sola su per la collina dove il bosco è più fitto. Indossa stivaletti rossi coi tacchi, inadatti al sentiero fangoso, una giacca di camoscio che le ha prestato la sua migliore amica e una sciarpa di ciniglia. Dopo aver affidato i bambini alla suocera, è rient...

È il 1960, l'anno in cui il giovane Kennedy porta via la poltrona al paterno generale di nome Ike, una scimmia vola nello spazio a bordo di un razzo americano e il mondo intero ruota attorno a un asse chiamato Congo. Lo stato dell'Africa centrale, liberato dalla dominazione coloniale belga, precipita nel Grande Gioco della guerra fredda tra le superpotenze, diventando meta di avventurieri, spie e missionari provenienti da ogni parte del globo....

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 recons...

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 all 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.

Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love. Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor.

Acclaimed fiction-writer Kingsolver (The Bean Trees, 1987), Homeland and Other Stories, p. 572) worked as a journalist covering the strike against the Phelps Dodge Copper Corporation (June 1983 to about December 1985) that shook the economic and social order in several isolated Arizona towns. Her partisan account focuses on how women - as miners, but more often as members of the Women's Auxiliary - emerged to play a major role both in the conf...

It is summer in the Appalachian mountains and love, desire and attraction are in the air. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own.

Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. As the communit...

Paperback edition of the latest novel from the bestselling and Orange Prize winning author. With a story that touches on class, poverty and climate change, it's set in the Appalachian Mountains. A big summer read for 2013, and Kingsolver will be coming to the UK to promote it. There will be a huge publicity campaign, with interviews, features and reviews across the media. 'Urgent issues demand important art. "Flight Behaviour" rises - with con...

For the first time in mass-market paperback, this bestseller is a sequel to "Bean Trees." Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, leading to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws everyone around her in a complex web connecting their futures with their pasts.

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison S...

From the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo to the America of J. Edgar Hoover, "The Lacuna" tells the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations. Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife, e...

New York Times Notable BookWashington PostBest Book Of The YearAmazon's Top 100: Editor's ChoiceUsa Today Best Book Of The YearDellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man.She hikes up a mountain road behind her house toward a secr...