After the seventh severed hand, the commander orders Alfa to take one month’s leave. He then brings their severed hands and rifles back to camp.Īt first, he is hailed as a hero for his bravery, but his fellow soldiers quickly realize that he is spiraling into madness and become afraid of him. When they beg for death, he kills them, granting them a mercy he was unable to give to Mademba. After Mademba’s death, Alfa captures German soldiers and disembowels them. Mademba asks Alfa to kill him repeatedly, but Alfa is unable to do so. Wanting to prove his bravery, Mademba charges into battle and is disemboweled. One day, Alfa jokes about the Diop family’s totem, the peacock, stating that it is cowardly when compared to the Ndiaye family’s lion. Plot Īlfa Ndiaye and his adopted brother Mademba Diop are Senegalese Tirailleurs fighting in World War I. It was published in the UK by Pushkin Press and in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The English translation by Anna Moschovakis won the 2021 International Booker Prize. First published in French on August 16, 2018, by Éditions du Seuil, it won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens that same year. At Night All Blood Is Black ( French: Frère d'âme, lit.'Soul brother') is a novel by French author David Diop.
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