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At Night All Blood Is Black

David Diop


  • Pushkin (Faber)
  • by By David Diop. Translated by Anna Moschovakis
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open. Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms.

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Publisher Pushkin (Faber)
ISBN 9781782277538
Author(s) By David Diop. Translated by Anna Moschovakis
Publication date July 2021
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 160
Language(s) Eng. ed.
extra information Reprint. WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021
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Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.

Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?

At Night All Blood is Black is a hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness.

At Night All Blood Is Black

At Night All Blood Is Black

€13.50