{"product_id":"at-night-all-blood-is-black","title":"At Night All Blood Is Black","description":"*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*\n*ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021*\n\nWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction\nShortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award\n\n\"Astonishingly good.\" ―Lily Meyer, NPR\n\"So incantatory and visceral I don’t think I’ll ever forget it.\" ―Ali Smith, The Guardian | Best Books of 2020\n\nOne of TheWall Street Journal's 11 best books of the fall | One of The A.V. Club's fifteen best books of 2020 |A Sunday Times best book of the year\n\nSelected 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.\n\nAlfa 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. 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.\n\nUnable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa’s mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German’s severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa’s deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn’t a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?\n\nPeppered with bullets and 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 125080020X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.125080020X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Diop, David\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41505997979706,"sku":"DBV.125080020X.G","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/125080020X-0.jpg?v=1783230123","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/at-night-all-blood-is-black","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}