At Night All Blood Is Black
Book description
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,…
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2 authors picked At Night All Blood Is Black as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I'd also highly recommend Diop's "Beyond The Door of No Return" for its fascinating reclamation of a dark history.
Diop is a French writer (b.1966) and this book won the 2021 International Booker Prize.
I don’t seek out war stories, particularly those set in the trenches of the Great War, as this one is, but At Night All Blood Is Black isn’t your standard war novel.
I was hoping for something beyond the mud and the bayonets, the horror and its unending aftermath. I was hoping for an understanding of the paradox of being human and, even though the book is unapologetically bleak, I wasn’t disappointed.
How come? The love between the soldiers, Alfa and Mademba, is at the…
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