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Blurb: “WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S BEST BOOKS OF FALL
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020
"Beguiling... [Diop) takes his character into the depths of hell and lets him thrive there..
As violent and disturbing as these encounters are, they are rendered with such artistic grace that one derives a strange pleasure in reading about even the bloodiest of nights." —CHIGOZIE OBIOMA, The New York Times Book Review
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man fighting as a so-called Chocolat soldier with the French army in World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop is mortally wounded in bartle, Mademba begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long death in no-man's-land. But Alfa can't bring himself to strike down a man who is like a brother to him, and Mademba dies in agony.
Faced with what he comes to see as his own cowardice and cruelty, Alfa begins to lose touch with reality. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend, he embarks on a series of nocturnal forays across enemy lines, with gruesome results. At first, Alfas comrades admire his ingenuity and daring, but rumors soon circulate that this super-soldier isn't a hero but a sorcerer, a devourer of souls. Just how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?
Peppered with bullets and dark magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgorten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the day-to-day 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.
"Astonishingly good." —LILY MEYER, NPR
"David Diop's Ar Nighi All Blood Is Black is an unrelenting take on war, race, masculinity, and colonialism. Most'ofall, Diop's short, sharp, and serrated novel is a visceral dramatization of how our humanity and inhumanity are forever intertwined."
-VIET THANH NGUYEN, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer”