Empire Stores At the Full and Change of the Moon Author: Dionne Brand Trade Paperback Usually ships in 1-2 weeks This item's supplier can usually deliver to us in 1-2 weeks, but there may be a delay if the supplier runs out of stock. Our Price: $19.95 You could save $2.00 (10%) with our iREWARDS Program Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) Dimensions: 320 Pages, 5.1875 x 8 in | Canadian Author | ISBN: 0676972586 Published: February 1999 | Published by Vintage Canada Our customers who bought this item also bought: A Map to the Door of No Return (2001) Book ~ Dionne Brand chapters.indigo Review Some grandparents claim to have walked several miles to and from school "in their day." Others discuss how difficult it was running the family farm, feeding and clothing a large brood or performing back-breaking tasks in the mines. Without question, the older generations have countless stories about the many sacrifices they made to ensure comfort and security for the following generations. How many grandchildren can say their great-grandmother piloted a mass suicide? Such is the case in Dionne Brand's hard-hitting At the Full and Change of the Moon , a tale in which several generations try to live with the knowledge their Trinidadian great-grandmother, Marie Ursule, led a group of slaves to their deaths in revolt to the slave trade. From the Publisher In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves, plots a mass suicide - a quiet, passionate act of revolt. But she cannot bring herself to kill her small daughter, Bola, whom she smuggles away in the early dawn light. As Bola’s children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren spill out across the world to America, Canada and Europe, they find their lives both haunted and vindicated by the dreams and passions of their defiant ancestor. The interconnected stories of six generations of Marie Ursule’s descendants form a lush, beguiling and beautifully told history of dispossession, and bring this Governor General’s Award-winning writer into the front rank of the world’s novelists. About the Author Dionne Brand won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Trillium Award in 1997 for Land to Light On . Her novel In Another Place, Not Here was shortlisted for the Chapters/ Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Award, and was published in the US and the UK to great acclaim. Dionne Brand lives in Toronto. Review Quotes "One of the essential works of our times...Rich, elegiac...nothing short of brilliant." — The Globe and Mail "Sensuous...wildly lyrical...wonderful...Extremely impressive in the range of its characters and situations...It is an unforgettable world [that] pierces the imagination." — The Toronto Star "Rich and vibrant...Dionne Brand continues to wrestle with her restless poetics in an effort to forge a language bold enough for the big ideas she likes to cram into her fiction...Sensuous, sometimes hallucinatory prose...Brand’s is a voice both brave and beautiful." — NOW "Extraordinary...Dionne Brand...exults in the power of language and deploys it to lure us from harsh reality to metaphysical heights...The prose, so close to poetry, [is] almost musical." — National Post "…tough, unflinching…hauntingly beautiful. The novel creates a rich world…" --Philip Marchand, the Toronto Star "Brand draws us into a fierce, incendiary plantation world, a lush, dense revolutionary zone…through the sheer force of her imagination wills an obscured history back to life . " --The Montreal Gazette (4/3/99) "…a brilliant work. Like all her writing, Brand’s work here is dense, beautiful and sure, but what makes this work even bigger again is her evocation of an intricately connected past and present." -- Georgia Straight ( 8/8/99) "… At the Full and Change of the Moon is simply a beautiful, frightening and engaging book...[A] powerful novel." -- Books in Canada (30/7/99) Info Desk iREWARDS Program About Our Company Affiliate Opportunities Careers Contact Us Corporate Sales Gift Certificates Privacy Policy Shipping Rates Store Locations Wish List chapters.indigo.ca: books Shopping Bag | Account Centre | Wish List | Help iREWARDS Program | Corporate Sales | Store Locations All Products Books DVD Video Gifts Books Advanced Search Search Tips About this Book chapters.indigo Review From the Publisher About the Author Review Quotes Browse Books Art and Architecture Audiobooks Biography & Memoir Business and Finance Children's Books Computers Entertainment Family and Relationships Fiction and Literature Food and Drink Health and Well Being History Home and Garden Mystery and Suspense Reference and Language Religion and Spirituality Romance Science and Nature Science Fiction and Fantasy Social and Cultural Studies Sports Travel Coles Notes . 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