At the Full and Change of the Moon

Description

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)

Description

A novel on Trinidad's diaspora. It follows the lives of the descendants of a witch who staged a mass suicide in 1824 to protest slavery. The descendants range from a gangster in the U.S. to a prostitute in Holland.

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• Fiction

Other Editions

• At the Full and Change of the Moon: A NovelGrove Press1999-01-01
• At the full and change of the moonGranta Books1999-01-01
• At the full and change of the moonAlfred A. Knopf Canada1999-01-01
• At the full and change of the moonVintage Canada2000-01-01
• At the Full and Change of the MoonGrove/Atlantic, Incorporated2000-01-01
• At the Full and Change of the MoonPaperbackVintage Canada2000-05-09