David Diop (2) (1966–)
Autor de At Night All Blood Is Black
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Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Hermance Triey
Obras de David Diop
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1966-02-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- France
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Paris, France
- Lugares de residencia
- Paris, France
Dakar, Senegal - Educación
- Sorbonne (PhD)
- Ocupaciones
- professor
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 814
- Popularidad
- #31,349
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 33
- ISBNs
- 42
- Idiomas
- 11
This is Alfa's story. With his friend Mademba's death comes overwhelming guilt, and a need to avenge it. He devotes himself to a savage campaign to single out enemy soldiers to disembowel, and remove their hands as a kind of talisman. This is the beginning of his slow descent into madness, as his fellow soldiers come to regard him not with admiration, but with fear. Is this man a sorcerer, a demon? And is his behaviour surprising when we realise, as Alfa eventually did, that his friend died in the defence of a regime which regarded him and his compatriots as expendable ?
Alfa is removed from the front line. This is when we learn his back story, the reason for the bond between the two men, and witness his disturbed mind spiral out of control.
A powerful, bleak novella giving a voice to the often unrecognised contribution of colonial soldiers to France's Great War.… (más)