{"product_id":"at-the-full-and-change-of-the-moon-9780802137234","title":"At the Full and Change of the Moon","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Dionne Brand:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“[Brand has] a lush and exuberant style that may put some readers in mind of Toni Morrison or Edwidge Danticat.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Joining such acclaimed Caribbean writers as Paule Marshall, Rosa Guy, Jamaica Kincaid and Maryse Conde is a new group of outstanding talents like Edwidge Danticat and Patrick Chamoiseau. One must add to that list Dionne Brand. At the \u003ci\u003eFull and Change of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, her second novel, is a hypnotically compelling, magical set of tales...The stories, fascinating, sad and sometimes horrific, are told in a densely rhythmic and haunting style that is also full of heartbreak and longing for things beyond the characters’ grasp. . . . [an] unsettling and beautifully written novel.” \u003cb\u003e—Paula L. Woods, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Luminously written. . .haunting.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEmerge\u003c\/i\u003e (Recommended Reading)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is hard to describe, but there is a grave radiance inside this book. Step into its light.” \u003cb\u003e—Carole Maso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] ambitious and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of freedom and the power of memory.” —\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The language in these interlocking tales is as rhythmic as waves in the sea, sometimes incantory: dreamlike or nightmarish...Ghosts may fill some of the rooms and wander along the shore, but what happens is all in the mind–mystical and mystifying, true and shadowed. Sometimes evocation is simply exquisite, as the depiction of the prostitute Maya sitting in her window in Amsterdam; other times, as the second Bola inhabits the old house in Trinidad with the ghost of her grandmother, it is terrifying. Fabulous in the deepest sense of the word.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Impassioned, lyrical...a tactile history of brutal, beautiful images that flutter before the eye and ache against the skin.” \u003cb\u003e—Alberto Mobilio, The Village Voice Literary Supplement‘s “Writers on the Verge”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A distinguished, visionary work, grounded in the language and legacy of [Brand’s] native Trinidad. Intricately structured and lyrically narrated...Brand seamlessly fuses individual and collective identities in a work of poetic achievement.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A powerful family saga, filled with passion and anguish . . . Brand renders [these] lives in rich, almost lyrical language, offering up a world filled with unique characters.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Dionne Brand] has a way of kneading language into shape, creating a prose-style which is effortlessly musical and wholly original.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dionne Brand’s luscious new novel features an African-American Eve whose children leave Trinidad to travel all over the world, their lives weaving around one another in brilliant strands. . . . A delicately structured, beautifully written novel infused with rare emotional clarity.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Independent (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rich, elegiac, almost biblical in its rhythms . . . One of the essential works of our times . . . The authority with which Brand sinks into these lives, assuming their very different sensibilities, is astonishing.” \u003cb\u003e—Joan Thomas, \u003ci\u003eThe Globe \u0026amp; Mail (Toronto)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sensuous ...wildly lyrical...wonderful...[It] pierces the imagination.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In its uses of imagistic language, the novel is reminiscent of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient...Brand is an elegant writer...Richly textured and haunting.” \u003cb\u003e—Irene D’souza, \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brand draws us into a fierce, incendiary plantation world, a lush dense revolutionary zone defined as much by insurrections and enclaves of escaped slaves as by its vast white-owned plantations. . . . Through the sheer force of her imagination, [Dionne Brand] will an obscured black history back to life.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Gazette (Montreal)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862969549143,"sku":"9780802137234","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802137234.jpg?v=1759919232","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/at-the-full-and-change-of-the-moon-9780802137234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}