{"product_id":"at-night-all-blood-is-black","title":"At Night All Blood Is Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e*ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize for fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Astonishingly good.\" \u003cb\u003e--Lily Meyer, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"So incantatory and visceral I don't think I'll ever forget it.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAli Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e's 11 best books of the fall One of \u003ci\u003eThe A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e's fifteen best books of 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest book of the year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop's English-language, historical fiction debut \u003ci\u003eAt Night All Blood is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called \u003ci\u003e\"Chocolat\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnable 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeppered 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 \u003ci\u003eAt Night All Blood is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling tale of a man's descent into madness.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942035980519,"sku":"9781250800206","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_28ee940e-fadd-48a7-8ab8-dbb040483302.jpg?v=1775244091","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/at-night-all-blood-is-black","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}