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At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel
David Diop, Anna Moschovakis (translation)A hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness, shattered by grief & the horror of war.
Translated by Anna Moschovakis
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Alfa & Mademba are two Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War, dutifully climbing out of their trenches to attack whenever the whistle blows. Then Mademba is mortally wounded & dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open. Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone & lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence & death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend? Peppered with bullets & black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a man’s descent into madness.
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, & dark novel” (Livres Hebdo) of terror & transformation in the trenches of the First World War.
"Its incantatory prose & dark brilliant vision had jangled our emotions & blown our minds... it cast a spell on us." - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Chair of the Booker Prize judges
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David Diop was born in Paris & grew up in Senegal. He now lives in France, where he is a professor at the University of Pau & Pays de l’Adour, where his research includes such topics as 18th-century French literature & European representations of Africa in the 17th & 18th centuries.
Anna Moschovakis has translated books by Albert Cossery, Annie Ernaux, Robert Bresson, & Marcelle Sauvageot, among others. Her novel Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love was published in 2018.
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