The Poisonwood Bible : Paperback : Harper : 9780062213709 : : 25 Sep 2012 : Barbara Kingsolver\'s magnum opus and biggest bestseller to date, now available for the first time in an international mass market edition! 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, The Poisonwood Bible is a suspenseful epic of one family\'s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over three decades in postcolonial Africa.