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In Another Place, Not Here Paperback – 2 February 2000

by Dionne Brand (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
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Acclaimed by Adrienne Rich as "fierce, sensuous . . . a work of great beauty and moral imagination," In Another Place, Not Here tells of two contemporary Caribbean women who find brief refuge in each other on an island in the midst of political uprising. Elizete, dreaming of running to another place to escape the harshness of her daily life on the island, meets Verlia, an urban woman in constant flight who has returned to her island birthplace with hopes of revolution. Their tumultuous story moves between city and island, past and future, fantasy and reality.
With all the lyrical intensity of a praisesong, Dionne Brand's luminous debut novel, In Another Place, Not Here, tells of two contemporary Caribbean women one urban, passionate, and idealistic, the other constrained by disillusion and rural poverty, each in her own spiritual exile who find brief refuge in each other on an island in the midst of political uprising.

Elizete dreams of running to another place to escape the harshness of her daily life on the island. Knowing better than to hope for much, she lives in a world of lush inventions that stave off reality. Then she meets Verlia, a woman in constant flight, who lives in Toronto and has returned to her island birthplace with hope of revolution. Both women are dreaming of each other's reality and of each other. Their tumultuous story moves between city and island, between material and spiritual poverty, between fantasy and reality, in a past and future time where the dream is always, again, deferred.

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    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Grove Press
  4. Publication date
    2 February 2000
  5. Dimensions
    15.24 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0802136338
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0802136336
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Praise for Dionne Brand



"Passionate in its attention to emotional nuance and visual detail, In Another Place, Not Here weds beauty and fierce intelligence." -The New York Times Book Review


"Remarkable...Dionne Brand's debut novel reads with the urgent intensity of a wail that continues to echo." --The Washington Post Book World


"A work of artistic boldness in both form and content...This is a must-read book." --Ms.


"The remarkable poet Dionne Brand now gives us a fierce, sensuous novel of women in migration-political and emotional. Concrete and visionary as a dream, relentless as the history it reveals, In Another Place, Not Here is a work of great beauty and moral imagination." --Adrienne Rich


"[Dionne Brand] creates a new language that fuses modernist tricks and tics (echoes of Faulkner and Woolf accumulate as the book progresses) with the suggestive speech of unlettered rural Trinidadians...Spectacular." --The Women's Review of Books


"Brand has two gifts that are incendiary in combination: a concise and intelligent grasp of the subtleties of emotion and an apparently effortless ability to capture the flicker of experience... A stunning book." --Editor's Choice, Globe & Mail (Toronto)


"A beauty that must be read to be believed...Brand combines folklore with poetry in a manner which recalls Michael Ondaatje. This book is one of the classics of our culture." --George Elliott Clarke, The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax)


"Always turbulent, always golden and daring, with a strong touch of the poetic . . . that Dionne Brand manages to pull all this off makes her one of the best practitioners of contemporary fiction that I have read in the last ten years." --Austin Clarke, The Toronto Star



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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press; 1st Grove Press Pbk. Ed edition (2 February 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0802136338
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802136336
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Steve Monk
2.0 out of 5 stars It sacrifices clarity for the sake of style
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I'm only half-way through - not really far enough along to consider my review valid - but reading In Another Place, Not Here is like reading a book written by my cat. It's ignores every attempt I make to engage it. It refuses to recognize my existence. A paragraph's opening will introduce something dramatic, like an immigration raid, or a violent threat, or a sexual assault, and then a few sentences later, within the same paragraph, without explaining who did what to whom and why, it'll just introduce something else mundane and unrelated, in a new time and place, and completely irrelevant to the plot, and continue at it for two pages. It's like when your cat sidles up to your leg like it really wants to be pet, but then as soon as you bend down to pet it, it walks over to your garbage can and stares at it for twenty minutes.

Also - and this is more so a pet peeve of mine - it really overuses pronouns. With the text's many abrupt shifts in subject, time and place, the overuse of pronouns leaves you wondering who "she" is, and which people are included in "their." It sacrifices clarity for the sake of style.
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