Barbara Kingsolver: 19 books

A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain. Since its publication in 2007,...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver delivers a collection of 12 original tales in Homeland and Other Stories that are every bit as emotionally resonant, humorous, and heartfelt as her much-beloved novels. In settings ranging from eastern Kentucky to northern California and...

"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...

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain...

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...

Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking...

所有的生靈都是共謀者 「如果母親和她的孩子這天沒有走這條小路， 那被擰斷的樹枝便會長得更粗壯，肥碩的蜘蛛也會活下來。 每個生命的軌跡都變了， 就因為你走了這條路，觸動了歷史。」 《毒木聖經》—— 一部「黑暗大陸」版《聖經》，一部以生態視角反思文明的重磅小說， 既是飽滿細膩的家庭史詩，也是磅礴銳利的歷史寓言！ 《紐約時報》「年度最佳小說」、亞馬遜「一生中必看的100部小說」、 歐普拉＆希拉蕊最愛的10本書、美國高中生指定必讀經典 ——小說家芭芭拉・金索沃代表作首度引入台灣！ 馬奎斯、昆德拉之後，你為這樣一部好看的經典小說等了多久？ ★創造出版神話，全美狂銷400萬冊，售出14國版權 ★名主持人歐普拉「千禧年以來最愛的10本書」 ★《紐約時報》「年度最佳小說」、《出版人周刊》「年度小說」 ★亞馬遜網路書店「一生中必看的100部小說」，讀者熱評逾3000則 ★美國高中生「必讀的26部經典」 ★雄踞《今日美國報》暢銷書榜逾2年半 ★作者獲頒美國人文領域最高榮譽「國家人文勛章」；被譽為當代美國文學最特殊的聲音、最受愛戴作家 【封面設計理念說明】 ◆封面由插畫家朱疋繪製設計，以精細筆觸描繪熱帶密林神秘、野性的氛圍。 ◆畫面精巧安排書中具象徵意義的㺢㹢狓、綠曼巴蛇、灰鸚鵡與非洲動植物，繁茂枝葉間有獵食者潛伏環伺。 【本書簡介】 這裡，是神祕未開發的蠻荒大陸，是康拉德筆下難以馴化的黑暗之心； 這裡，也是鑽石象牙黃金橡膠棕櫚樹之地，是西方貪婪之眼必取的珍寶與礦脈。 Bangala，班加拉，剛果語，指珍貴之物；當發音微異，指毒木，白色樹液含劇毒。當美國白人牧師對著非洲剛果人布道時高喊「耶穌是班加拉」時，眾人聽到的卻是「耶穌是毒木！」——讚美主，哈利路亞！因為耶穌會使你騷癢難耐！ 白人牧師堅信自己不講其他，只講真理和福音，但在這非洲紅土之上每時每刻寫下的，卻是一部「毒木聖經」。 一九五九年，美國浸信會白人牧師普萊斯帶著妻子和四個女兒來到比屬剛果傳教，欲在這片暗黑之地「拯救」非洲人的靈魂，迎來的，卻是一家人失序的開始。隔年，比屬剛果宣布獨立，突如其來的自由與生搬硬套的選舉制度，讓這塊土地上兩百多個非洲部族陷入了混亂；一年後，美國為了自身利益，隔海策劃了一場暗殺新總理的行動…… 蠻荒、文化、政治、暗殺的衝擊動盪，捲動了每個人的生命；自然中一物吃一物，人也只是其中的一種。危機悄然潛伏，瘟疫般的暴雨與嗜血的政治獵殺，在同一天展開…… 這五名被歷史與罪責俘虜的女性，她們的雙眼看見了什麼？ 該如何穿越命運的叢林，走出自己的救贖？ ◎五位女性的故事，是非洲的聲音，也是自我的覺醒 作者芭芭拉‧金索沃（Barbara...

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...

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...

Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as...

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...

Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer,...

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...

The environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious reflection, inspiration, and direction on how to approach the future are now...