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Cargando... At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel (2018 original; edición 2020)por David Diop (Autor), Anna Moschovakis (Traductor)
Información de la obraAt Night All Blood Is Black por David Diop (2018)
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |    ) diveteamzissou | Apr 3, 2024 | My rating 5/5 This is a small book but totally wonderful!! https://sravikabodapati.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/book-review-at-night-all-blood-... (  ) nagasravika.bodapati | Jan 26, 2024 | I could not listen to the Audible release which is introduced as “performed” by narrator Dion Graham, and turned to a less dramatic “straight” read by Ray Foushee. I was able to read further but still could not finish. I felt that the level of violence was unnecessary. I got the point at the third disembowelment. Yes the prose was good but did not reach a level to overcome what I felt was unnecessary gore. (  ) kjuliff | Jan 20, 2024 | Alfa is a twenty-year-old Senegalese soldier fighting for the French colonizers in the trenches of World War I. The book opens with Alfa lying beside his dying brother-in-arms, Mademba. The two had been inseparable throughout childhood and on the battlefield, now Mademba is begging Alfa to "finish him off" rather than let him die in pain and indignity. Alfa refuses to kill his best friend, setting off a downward spiral of doubt, guilt, recrimination, vengeance, and madness. Told entirely from Alfa's point of view, the book is brutal and dark, portraying not only the horrors of war but of colonial racism. Once I began reading, I could not put the book down, and finished it in a single sitting. I then went back and reread the ending twice more. There is so much to unpack in this small volume. It's also beautifully written, even descriptions of horrible acts read lyrically. It's easy to understand why it won the International Booker Prize in 2021. Although it will not be a book for everyone, if you are interested, I recommend it highly. Yes, I understood, God's truth, that on the battlefield they wanted only fleeting madness. Madmen of rage, madmen of pain, furious madmen, but temporary ones. No continuous madmen. As soon as the fighting ends we're to file away our rage, our pain, and our fury. Pain is tolerated, we can bring our pain home on the condition that we keep it to ourselves. But rage and fury cannot be brought back to the trench. ( ) labfs39 | Dec 31, 2023 |
 If the measure of a book’s success is to be quite unlike anything else, then At Night All Blood Is Black deserves the bouquets and trumpets after all. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
"La desgarradora historia de un soldado senegal en las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Alfa Ndiaye es senegal y ha acabado combatiendo con el ej?cito franc en las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial. En el mismo regimiento tambi? lucha su amigo Mademba Diop, que es herido de gravedad en el frente. Cuando Mademba le pide que lo mate para evitar sufrimientos int?iles, Alfa se siente incapaz de cumplir su deseo. Ansioso por vengar la muerte de su compa?ro, cada noche se desliza con sigilo hacia las posiciones enemigas, elige a un soldado cuid?dose de no ser descubierto, clava la mirada en sus ojos azules, lo mata infligi?dole la misma herida con que se desangr ?Mademba y despu le corta una mano y se la lleva como trofeo. Noche tras noche repite este macabro ritual. Al principio sus compa?ros lo miran con admiracin?, pero, mientras los combates se recrudecen y se produce algn? motn? sofocado sin contemplaciones por la oficialidad, empiezan a circular entre la soldadesca rumores de que Alfa no es un h?oe sino un brujo, un devorador de almas... Escrita con una prosa hipnt?ica, esta desgarradora novela retrata el descenso a los infiernos de un joven soldado colonial en la Europa en guerra. Plasma el horror cotidiano de las trincheras, pero tambi? evoca el mundo y los seres queridos que ha dejado atrs?, e indaga en su identidad dividida. Una narracin? deslumbrante, sobrecogedora, inolvidable."--Amazon.com No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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. (