The Bible of the Polorcosure. Kingsolver B.

The fanatical missionary Nathan Price, together with his wife and daughters, leaves the prosperous civilized America and goes to the Black Continent, to the Jungle of the Belgian Congo, with a firm faith in God and with the hope that the Lord will help him to convert local residents to Christianity. He preaches violently and passionately, but the locals do not at all eager to accept fertile gifts.

They tremble their shrines, honor the traditions of their ancestors and continue to perform their wild, sometimes inhuman, rites.

But in his own family, Nathan Price is brewing a rebellion: the households were not ready for the hardships of the life of a deaf African village. Everything seems to them alien and frightening - sinister gloomy jungle, where death lies in wait at every step; People,

meeting them with gloomy silence, and even Nathan Price himself with his fanatical, not knowing pity by faith...