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Oprah sat down for a conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, whose epic novel Demon Copperhead is the latest OBC selection—the 98th in the 26-year history of Oprah’s Book Club. The video will be ...
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Demon Copperhead was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" by The Washington Post [12] and The New York Times. [13] The novel was named the recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction alongside Hernan Diaz's Trust; this was the first time in its history that the award was shared. [14] It won the 2022 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. [15]
This quote appears at the beginning of Demon Copperhead for a reason. In reimagining this classic tale, Kingsolver brings the present into stark relief, demonstrating that societies, whether in ...
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally.
The 10 Best Books were announced November 29, 2022. [63] Fiction Jennifer Egan, The Candy House; Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19; Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead; Namwali Serpell, The Furrows; Hernan Diaz, Trust; Nonfiction Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us; Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir
The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River. The novel's title refers to Bible errata. The father of the family creates his own "misprint" of the Bible.
According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [1] Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 200 million copies for the Book of Mormon . [ 2 ]