At the Full and Change of the Moon

Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, queen of a secret slave society called the Sans Peur Regiment, plots a mass suicide. The end of the Sans Peur is also the beginning of a new world, for Marie-Ursule cannot kill her young daughter, Bola -- who escapes to live free and bear a dynasty of descendants who spill out across the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Haunted by a legacy of passion and oppression, the children of Bola pass through two world wars and into the confusion, estrangement, and violence of the late twentieth century. Brand has] a lush and exuberant style that may put some readers in mind of Toni Morrison or Edwidge Danticat. -- William Ferguson, The New York Times Book Review; A delicately structured, beautifully written novel infused with rare emotional clarity. -- Julie Wheelwright, The Independent (London); Rich, elegiac, almost biblical in its rhythms . . . One of the essential works of our times. -- The Globe & Mail (Toronto)

Author: Dionne Brand
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 08/14/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.57w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9780802137234
ISBN10: 0802137237
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Sagas