{"product_id":"at-night-all-blood-is-black","title":"At Night All Blood Is Black","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiop, David\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\" id=\"desc_summary125080020X-content\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSelected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop’s English-language historical fiction debut\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Night All Blood Is Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a “powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel” (\u003ci\u003eLivres Hebdo\u003c\/i\u003e) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who finds himself fighting as a so-called Chocolat soldier with the French army during World War I. When his village friend Mademba Diop is mortally wounded in battle, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaced 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 and find forgiveness for himself, he adopts a macabre nocturnal ritual: he sneaks across enemy lines every night to find and kill a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with his victim’s severed hand. At first, Alfa’s comrades admire his ingenuity, but rumors soon circulate that this super-soldier isn’t a hero but a sorcerer, a devourer of souls. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front and separate him from his growing collection of hands before his apparent psychosis affects morale. But how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending fantastical oral storytelling traditions with the day-to-day horror of life in the trenches, David Diop’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Night All Blood Is Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a dazzling tale of a man’s descent into madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45416160887017,"sku":"9781250800206","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/products\/9781250800206_9262a.jpg?v=1693508665","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/at-night-all-blood-is-black","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}