Barbara Kingsolver
Contents:
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Book One - generation BookTwo - THE REVELATION BookThree - THE JUDGES Book Four - BEL AND THE snake Book Five - EXODUS Book Six - birdsong of THE THREE CHILDREN Book Seven - THE EYES IN THE TREES
Authors Note
THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. Its principal characters are thin inventions with no relations on this earth, as far as I know. But the congou in which I place them is genuine. The historical figures and events described here are as square as I could render them with the help of recorded history, in all its fascinating variations. Because I wasnt able to project Zaire while researching and writing the novel, I relied on memory, extend in other parts of Africa, and many peoples accounts of the natural, cultural, and social history of the Congo/Zaire. Such is the diversity and quantify of these sources to me, and to any reader who might wish to know much of the facts underpinning the fictionthat Ive cited many of them in a bibliography at the end of the book. Most profoundly helpful among them was Jonathan Kwitnys definition of Zaires postcolonial history, in his excellent book, Endless Enemies, which gave frame of reference to my passion to write a novel on the resembling subject.
I returned continually to that account for the big picture and myriad small insights. I gleaned many kinds of instruction from Janheinz Jahns unstained text, Muntu; Chinua Achebes novel, Things Fall Apart; Man P. Merriams Congo: Background of Conflict; and Lumumba: The Last Fifty Days by G. Heinz and H. Donnay. I couldnt have written the book at all without two remarkable sources of literary inspiration, approximately tinge in size: K. E. Lamans Dictionnaire Kikongo-Francais, and the King James Bible. I also relied on help from my lively community of friends, both(prenominal) of whom may have feared theyd breathe their last beforehand I was through putting new
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