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 Puer 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.
- ISBN10 0802116493
- ISBN13 9780802116499
- Publish Date 27 November 1999 (first published 29 May 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English