Барбара Кингсолвер

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, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to ...

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's...

Last year produced a bumper crop of new Food Lit for readers, with top-notch releases like Bill Buford's Heat and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma . The trend continues in 2007 with Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : Barbara

In what may be the first novel to realistically imagine the near-term impact of “global weirding,” Barbara Kingsolver sets her latest story in rural Appalachia . In fictional Feathertown, Tennessee, Dellarobia Turnbow--on the run from her stifling life--charges up the mountain above her husband’s family farm and stumbles onto a “valley of fire” filled with millions of monarch butterflies. This vis...

The Bean Trees, first published in 1988, is the first book written by Barbara Kingsolver, followed by a sequel Pigs in Heaven. The protagonist of the novel, Taylor Greer, a native of Kentucky, finds herself in Oklahoma near Cherokee territory. The novel begins with a woman leaving an American Indian infant with Taylor. The remainder of the novel traces the experiences of Taylor and the child, whom...

The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize—returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. Willa Knox has ...

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 on...

Герою “Лакуны” Гаррисону У. Шеперду выпала удивительная судьба: он смешивал штукатурку для Диего Риверы, дружил с Фридой Кало и работал секретарем Льва Троцкого в Мексике, а затем вернулся в США, откуда был родом, и стал знаменитым писателем. Его страстью были литература и кухня — казалось бы, что может быть безобиднее? Но не обязательно кого-то обижать, чтобы стать жертвой охоты на ведьм. Рассказ...

Подлинная история простой американской семьи, которая решила поставить весьма смелый эксперимент: прожить целый год, питаясь исключительно теми продуктами, что произведены в их регионе.

Барбара Кингсолвер (р. 1955) – выдающийся американский прозаик, поэт и эссеист, лауреат множества международных и национальных премий. Практически все ее книги мгновенно попадают в списки бестселлеров, а главное ее произведение – великий роман «Библия ядоносного дерева» – входит в топ-100 сайта Goodreads и изучается в колледжах и университетах.Фанатичный миссионер Натан Прайс вместе с женой и доче...