At night, all the blood is black

The novel is a laureate of the 2021 International Buker Prize, the European Literary Prize and the Goncurian Prize of Lyceumists.

Hypnotic and heartbreaking narration of an inflamed mind, unable to cope with the grief and horrors of war. Alfa Ny, the Senegal Soldier, fighting on the side of France during the First World War, loses Magnis Diop on the battlefield. Without more than his brother, Alpha is lone and lost, but finds salvation in a terrible ritual, which eventually begins to frighten his comrades in arms more and more. How far is Alpha to go in to make amends for his dead friend?

Through piercing with bullets and pagan magic, “all the black blood at night” recalls the forgotten chapter in the history of the First World War. Having mixed the traditions of an oral narrative with a dry journalistic description of the horrors of life in the trenches, David Diop created an unusual story and defeat the story of a person’s immersion in madness