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by Dionne Brand (Author) "Marie Ursule woke up this morning knowing what morning it was and that it might be her last ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 302 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st American Ed edition (25 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802116493
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802116499
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,092,195 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The progeny of a woman who survived a mass suicide of slaves on the island of Trinidad in 1824 spread out across the globe, participating in 150 years of violence and struggle, two world wars, and the dangerous underworld of the Caribbean.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Caribbean Diaspora, 25 Jun 2003
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This is Dionne Brand's second novel, and her best narrative effort so far. Each of the chapters of the novel tells the life of one of the many descendants of Marie Ursule, an African slave in early 19th-century Trinidad. Male or female, living in Trinidad, Venezuela, Canada, the United States or the Netherlands, they all share a cultural heritage and a sense of being "family" which confers structural and ideological unity to the narrative.
The novel starts with the forced relocation of African Marie Ursule as she is sold from one plantation to the next due to her rebelliousness and insolence, and continues by tracing the criss-crossing paths of her descendants over North America, the Caribbean and Europe. Some leave home in order to escape the nightmare their life has become: Cordelia, for instance, leaves her Venezuelan home and comes to the island in order to forget her father's incestuous harassment. Others are trying to improve their prospects, like Maya, who earns her living in Amsterdam's red-light district, or Priest, who sells drugs in New York City. Yet other members of this extended family are simply trying to do what they think is right, like Private Sones, who joined the Second West India Regiment in 1917 in order to fight for the country he had thought his, Great Britain, and returned a broken man. All the stories are engaging, and often truly poignant. A must read.
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