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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The item At night all blood is black, David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library.
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- Summary
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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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
- "Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Frère d'âme"-- Print version title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780374720476
- Link
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- Label
- At night all blood is black
- Title
- At night all blood is black
- Statement of responsibility
- David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Mutilation
- Mutilation -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Senegalese fiction (French)
- Senegalese fiction (French)
- Soldiers
- Soldiers -- Fiction
- Soldiers, Black
- Soldiers, Black -- Fiction
- War fiction
- War fiction
- War stories
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- 1914-1918
- Language
- 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
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- RECBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1966-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Diop, David
- Dewey number
- 843.92
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- In English. Translated from the French
- LC call number
- PQ3989.2.D563
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Moschovakis, Anna
- Recorded Books, Inc
- OverDrive, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Soldiers, Black
- Soldiers
- Mutilation
- World War, 1914-1918
- Senegalese fiction (French)
- Mutilation
- Senegalese fiction (French)
- Soldiers
- Soldiers, Black
- Label
- At night all blood is black, David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
- Link
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- Note
- "Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Frère d'âme"-- Print version title page verso
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780374720476
- Level of compression
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 10d06535-a167-4cf0-afdb-653e434bc70a
- Publisher number
- EB00810926
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1162514271
- (OCoLC)on1162514271
- Label
- At night all blood is black, David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
- Link
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- Note
- "Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions du Seuil, France, as Frère d'âme"-- Print version title page verso
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780374720476
- Level of compression
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 10d06535-a167-4cf0-afdb-653e434bc70a
- Publisher number
- EB00810926
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1162514271
- (OCoLC)on1162514271
Subject
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Mutilation
- Mutilation -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Senegalese fiction (French)
- Senegalese fiction (French)
- Soldiers
- Soldiers -- Fiction
- Soldiers, Black
- Soldiers, Black -- Fiction
- War fiction
- War fiction
- War stories
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- 1914-1918
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