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It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to you Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to weart at the festival -- untiel her power-coprrupted father commits an unforgivable crime.
Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folkklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Here Tan-Tan must redeach into the heart of myth -- and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life...and set her free.
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"EXCELLENT...A BRIGHT, ORIGINAL MIX OF FUTURE URBAN DECAY AND WEST INDIAN MAGIC...STRONGLY ROOTED IN CHARACTER AND PLACE".
Book Description:
-- Sunday Denver Post on Brown Girl in the Ring
"Highly recommended."-- Library Journal (01/01/2000)
"Highly recommended." "Library Journal""
."..employs Caribbean folk elements to tell a story that is by turns fantastic, allegorical and contemporary." "Washington Post""
"Highly recommended." Library Journal"
"Deeply satisfying...succeeds on a grand scale...best of all is the language....Hopkinson's narrative voice has a way of getting under the skin."--The New York Times Book Review
"Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms...Beneath it lie complex, clearly evoked characters, haunting descriptions of exotic planets, and a stirring story...[This book] ought to elevate Hopkinson to star status."--Seattle Times
"Spicy and distinctive, set forth in a thoroughly captivating Caribbean dialect."--Kirkus Reviews
"Hopkinson's rich and complex Carib English is...quite beautiful...believable, lushly detailed worlds...extremely well-drawn...Hopkinson owns one of the more important and original voices in SF."--Publishers Weekly
"Highly recommended."--Library Journal
Rediscover Nalo Hopkinson's previous books, now with fresh new covers.
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- PublisherMiu Si/Tsai Fong Books
- ISBN 10 9866665704
- ISBN 13 9789866665707
- BindingPaperback
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