At Night All Blood Is Black

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At Night All Blood Is Black At Night All Blood Is Black

Author: David Diop

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Published: 2018

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"Heartbreaking and poetic." —The GuardianOne of the Wall Street Journal's 11 best books of the fallNamed a most anticipated book by Literary Hub | Electric Literature| The Millions | Refinery29Selected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop's English-language, historical fiction debut At Night All Blood is Black is a "powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel" (Livres Hebdo) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War.Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat" soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy...