![]() ![]() In Prodigal Summer she returns in a sense to her own back yard, although her marvellously subtle and compelling tale of a southern Appalachian farming community in tense interplay with the wilderness on its doorstep contains a deft parable of humankind's place in nature. ![]() Barbara Kingsolver's fiction has achieved bestselling status in the US with surprisingly ambitious themes, from Native American culture in The Bean Trees and its sequel Pigs in Heaven, through the Nicaraguan war of Animal Dreams, to evangelism and American foreign policy in the Belgian Congo of The Poisonwood Bible. ![]()
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