![]() ![]() ![]() ''Tata Jesus is bangala!'' he shouts during his African sermons. ![]() Orleanna is not a quoting woman, and for the quoting man in the family, her strident husband, there can be only one source - the Bible, unambiguous andĮntire, even in a land that demonstrates daily the suppleness of language. Great novella flickers behind her use of that phrase, and yet it doesn't. State of her marriage in those days and the condition of what she calls ''the country once known as Orleanna Wharton,'' wholly occupied back then by Nathan Price, aforesaid husband and man of God. He phrase ''heart of darkness'' occurs only once, as far as I can tell, in Barbara Kingsolver's haunting new novel, ''The Poisonwoodīible.'' When it does, it falls from the mouth of Orleanna Price, a Baptist missionary's wife who uses it to describe not the Belgian Congo, where she, her husband and their four daughters were posted in 1959, but the Barbara Kingsolver reads from 'The Poisonwood Bible'.Michiko Kakutani Reviews 'The Poisonwood Bible' (October 16, 1998).The family of a Baptist missionary in the Congo of the 1950's learns some hard lessons about life. ![]()
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