At night all blood is black
"A 'Chocolat' soldier with the French army during World War I, Senegalese Alfa Ndiaye's friend Mademba Diop is in the same regiment. 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 creep...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2020.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "A 'Chocolat' soldier with the French army during World War I, Senegalese Alfa Ndiaye's friend Mademba Diop is in the same regiment. 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. He sees this refusal as cowardice. To avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, every night Alfa sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, returning with the German's severed hand. As rumors circulate that Alfa is a soul-eater, how far will he go to make amends to his dead friend?"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in French in 2018 by âEditions du Seuil, France, as Fráere d'ãame"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 145 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374266974 0374266972 |
| Author Notes: | David Diop was born in Paris and was raised in Senegal. He is the head of the Arts, Languages, and Literature Department at the University of Pau, where his research includes such topics as eighteenth-century French literature and European representations of Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His second novel, At Night All Blood Is Black , was awarded the International Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. |
