After spending days dropping gifts from an aircraft, the five men in the party rashly entered the “intangible zone.” They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves.įive Wives is the fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles – with grief, with doubt, and with each other – as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands’ deaths.įive Wives is a riveting, often wrenching story of evangelism and its legacy, teeming with atmosphere and compelling characters and rich in emotional impact. The occasion was called Operation Auca, Auca being a pejorative among neighbouring tribes for the Waoranis. Actual memory of the news of five missionary men being killed by Waoranis in the jungles of Ecuador in 1956 is, by now, confined to sixty year-olds and older.
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In 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. Five Wives.Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. An edition of Five Wives (2019) Five Wives A Novel by Joan Thomas. In the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible and State of Wonder, a novel set in the rainforest of Ecuador about five women left behind when their missionary husbands are killed. WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
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