Dionne Brand
As a young girl growing up in Trinidad, Dionne Brand submitted poems to the newspapers under the pseudonym Xavier Simone, an homage to Nina Simone, whom she would listen to late at night on the radio. Brand moved to Canada when she was 17 to attend the University of Toronto, where she earned a degree in Philosophy and English, a Masters in the Philosophy of Education and pursued PhD studies in Women’s History but left the program to make time for creative writing.
Dionne Brand first came to prominence in Canada as a poet. Her books of poetry include No Language...
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What We All Long For
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97693-9 (0-676-97693-X)
December 27, 2005 | $19.95
“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”
What We All Long For follows the overlapping stories of a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings living in downtown Toronto. There’s Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who’ve never recovered from losing one of their children in...
Written by Dionne Brand
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97693-9 (0-676-97693-X)
December 27, 2005 | $19.95
“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”
What We All Long For follows the overlapping stories of a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings living in downtown Toronto. There’s Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who’ve never recovered from losing one of their children in...
A Map to the Door of No Return
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-25892-0 (0-385-25892-5)
September 17, 2002 | $21.00
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery.
Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across...
Written by Dionne Brand
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-25892-0 (0-385-25892-5)
September 17, 2002 | $21.00
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery.
Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across...
At the Full and Change of the Moon
Trade Paperback | 316 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97258-0 (0-676-97258-6)
May 9, 2000 | $24.00
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...
Written by Dionne Brand
Trade Paperback | 316 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97258-0 (0-676-97258-6)
May 9, 2000 | $24.00
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...
In Another Place, Not Here
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28179-7 (0-394-28179-9)
April 29, 1997 | $21.00
Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
Written by Dionne Brand
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28179-7 (0-394-28179-9)
April 29, 1997 | $21.00
Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
