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. 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. 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.Īlfa 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. Club 's 15 best books of 2020 | A Sunday Times best book of the year One of The Wall Street Journal 's 11 best books of the fall | One of The A.V. "So incantatory and visceral I don’t think I’ll ever forget it." (Ali Smith, The Guardian ) | Best Books of 2020 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
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