Name: At Night All Blood Is Black, Paperback/David Diop
Brand: Picador USA
Price: 93.99 RON
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*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE* *A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING LIST SELECTION* Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction Astonishingly good. --Lily Meyer, NPR So incantatory and visceral I don't think I'll ever forget it. -- Ali Smith, The Guardian Best Books of 2020 One of The Wall Street Journal 's 11 best books of the fall One of The A.V. Club 's fifteen best books of 2020 A Sunday Times best book of the year Selected 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 killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German's severed hand. At first hi