Red Moon at Dawn

Red Moon At Dawn unfolds in Mauritius during World War II, where food shortages, rising prices and a workers’ strike expose the brutal reach of colonial power. Told through the contrasting voices of two young women, the novel traces how they come to understand themselves and their island at a moment of upheaval. Valerie, a rebellious teenage activist, poet and would-be playwright, is drawn into the growing unrest on the sugar estate, while the younger, sheltered Anarka— raised by a British-...