![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon its US release late last year, the novel was hailed as “astonishingly good” by NPR, “a searing, eye-opening tale of innocence destroyed” by Kirkus, and “a spare yet extraordinary novel about this bloody stain on human history” by the New York Times. 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. Inspired by the silence surrounding his great-grandfather’s wartime experiences, Diop’s second novel (his first to be translated into English) interweaves the history of World War I with the history of colonialism, charting the decent into madness and brutality of a young soldier who witnesses his childhood friend die on the frontline.įirst published in France in 2018, At Night All Blood Is Black has already won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Los Angeles Times Fiction Book Prize. Peppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. David Diop today became the first French writer, and the first writer of African heritage, to win the prestigious International Booker Prize for translated fiction for his harrowing novel about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in the first world war, At Night All Blood Is Black. ![]()
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