0802137237 
Book At the Full and Change of the Moon / Dionne Brand.
Publication year: 2000
Format: Book
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Pres
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0802137237 9780802137234 :
Notes: The progeny of a woman who survived a mass suicide of slaves on the island of Trinidad in 1824 spreads out across the globe, participating in 150 years of violence and struggle, two world wars, and the dangerous underworld of the Caribbean. Reprint. 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
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320 pages ; 21 cm
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