About the book: 2020 / Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955) is an outstanding American prose writer, poet and essayist, winner of many international and national awards. Almost all of her books instantly hit the bestseller lists, and her main work, the great novel “The Poisonwood Bible,” is in the top 100 on Goodreads and is studied in colleges and universities. Fanatical missionary Nathan Price, along with his wife and daughters, leaves prosperous, civilized America and goes to the Dark Continent, to the jungles of the Belgian Congo, with firm faith in God and with the hope that the Lord will help him convert the local residents to Christianity. He preaches fiercely and passionately, but the local residents are not at all eager to accept the gifts of grace. They carefully protect their shrines, honor the traditions of their ancestors and continue to perform their wild, sometimes inhuman rituals. But a rebellion is brewing in Nathan Price’s own family: the household members were not ready for the hardships of life in a remote African village. Everything seems alien and frightening to them - an ominous dark jungle, where death lurks at every step; people who greet them with sullen silence, and even Nathan Price himself with his fanatical, unpitying faith…