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The Resource At night all blood is black, David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis

At night all blood is black, David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis

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  • "A Sengalese soldier loses his mind in the trenches of World War I"--
  • Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called 'Chocolat' 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. Unable 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? -- adapted from jacket
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eng
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"Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Frère d'âme"-- Print version title page verso
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9780374720476
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At night all blood is black
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At night all blood is black
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David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
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eng
Summary
  • "A Sengalese soldier loses his mind in the trenches of World War I"--
  • Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called 'Chocolat' 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. Unable 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? -- adapted from jacket
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1966-
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Diop, David
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843.92
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In English. Translated from the French
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PQ3989.2.D563
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fiction
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dictionaries
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  • Moschovakis, Anna
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  • Soldiers, Black
  • Soldiers
  • Mutilation
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • Senegalese fiction (French)
  • Mutilation
  • Senegalese fiction (French)
  • Soldiers
  • Soldiers, Black
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At night all blood is black, David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
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"Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Frère d'âme"-- Print version title page verso
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1 online resource
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online
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9780374720476
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At night all blood is black, David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
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"Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Frère d'âme"-- Print version title page verso
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unknown
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multicolored
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unknown
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1 online resource
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unknown
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online
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9780374720476
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unknown
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10d06535-a167-4cf0-afdb-653e434bc70a
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EB00810926
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remote
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