Les Yeux dans les arbres

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Nathan Price, pasteur baptiste américain au fanatisme redoutable, part en mission au Congo belge en 1959 avec sa femme et ses quatre filles. Ils arrivent de Géorgie dans un pays qui rêve d'autonomie et de libertés. Tour à tour, la mère et les quatre filles racontent la ruine tragique de leur famille qui, même avec sa bonne volonté et ses croyances de fer, ne résiste à rien, ni à la détresse, ni aux fourmis, ni aux orages...ni aux Saintes Ecritures. Après L'Arbre aux haricots et Les Cochons au paradis, Barbara Kingsolver a écrit son roman le plus ambitieux, un roman qui prend place dans la littérature postcoloniale.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionafricabook clubclassicsliterary fictionhistoricalliteraturenovelsadult fiction

672 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 24,1998

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, orange prize, book sense book of the year award, pen/faulkner award for fiction, independent publisher book award (ippy), exclusive books boeke prize, puddly award, dublin literary award,

Places

bethlehem georgia, kilanga, sanderling island georgia, leopoldville,

This edition

Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: March 7, 2001 by RIVAGES
ISBN: 9782743607708
ASIN: 274360770X
Language: French

Characters More characters

Orleanna Price

NarratorIs mother and daughter at different time periods in the storySister of Ruth May, Adah & RachelDaughter of Leah & Nathan PriceGrand Daughter of Dr Bud Wharton...
Ruth May Price

Sister of Orleanna, Adah & Rachel Daughter of Leah & Nathan PriceGrand Daughter of Dr Bud Wharton...
Rachel Rebeccah Price

Sister of Ruth May, Adah & OrleannaDaughter of Leah & Nathan PriceGrand Daughter of Dr Bud Wharton...
Leah Price

Mother of Orleanna, Rachel, Adah & Ruth MayWife of Nathan PriceDaughter of Dr Bud Wharton...
Nathan Price

Father of Orleanna, Rachel, Adah & Ruth MayHusband of Leah PriceSon-in-Law of Dr Bud Wharton...
Dr Bud Wharton

Grandfather of Orleanna, Rachel, Adah & Ruth MayFather-in-law of Nathan PriceFather of Leah Price...

About the author

barbara kingsolver

Barbara Ellen Kingsolver 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. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011 and the National Humanities Medal. After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperhead in 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the Women's Prize for Fiction twice. Since 1993, each one of her book titles have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Kingsolver was raised in rural Kentucky, lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood, and she currently lives in Appalachia. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. In 2000, the politically progressive Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change".