Book of the Week: AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS  BLACK by David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis)
The winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize is a breathtaking novel dealing with two Senegalese soldiers fighting for France in World War One. When one of the pair is killed, the surviving one devotes himself to war, to violence and death, and his descent into madness frightens even his own comrades. Hypnotically written, At Night All Blood is Black explores both the roots and consequences of trauma, and its ties to colonialism, race, and conceptions of masculinity. 
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>>The 2021 International Booker Prize virtual event. 
>>Nothing to reconcile. 
>>"More than a brother."
>>"A very physical book."
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