More than a century after World War I, a great new African writer is asking these questions in a spare yet extraordinary novel about this bloody stain on human history.

By the time we reach its shocking yet ultimately transcendent ending, the story has turned into something mystical, esoteric it takes a cyclic shape. The novel, though originally written in French, is grounded in the worldview of Senegal’s Wolof people, and the specificity and uniqueness of that culture’s language comes through even in Anna Moschovakis’s translation. 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. He takes his character into the depths of hell and lets him thrive there. Diop realizes the full nature of war - that theater of macabre and violent drama - on the page. LONDON At Night All Blood Is Black, a short novel about a Senegalese soldier’s descent into madness while fighting for France in World War I, was named on Wednesday as the winner of. But this book is about more than a lone man’s spiritual burden. At Night All Blood Is Black A Novel by David Diop and Anna Moschovakis 4.00 1 Ratings 26 Want to read 0 Currently reading 2 Have read Overview View 5 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 2020 Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Language English Pages 160 This edition doesn't have a description yet. The narrative voice brims with innuendoes and habitual repetitions like 'I know, I understand' and 'God’s truth,' which imbue the character with an edgy eccentricity. A Novel David Diop, Anna Moschovakis (Translated by) Hardcover List Price: 25.00 Individual store prices may vary. This transgression against the dead - or the delusion of such - fills the story with a mythic affliction that recalls the old sailor’s in Samuel Coleridge’s epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. From the very first pages, there is something beguiling about At Night All Blood Is Black, a slim, delicate novel by the Senegalese-French writer David Diop.

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