夜晚血液都是黑的（2021国际布克奖短名单入围） 英文原版 At Night All Blood is Black

基本信息/Product Details

Publisher : Pushkin Press (6 May 2021)

Language : English

Paperback : 160 pages

ISBN-10 : 1782277536

ISBN-13 : 978-1782277538 

Dimensions:129 x 197 x 16 (mm) 160g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介/Book Description

入围2021年国际布克尔奖名单

《卫报》和《泰晤士报》的年度图书

阿尔法和马登巴是众多参加大战的塞内加尔士兵中的两个。他们一起尽职尽责地爬出战壕，在哨声响起时攻击法国的德国敌人，直到马登巴受伤，死在弹孔中，腹部被撕开。

没有了他的兄弟，阿尔法在野蛮的冲突中感到孤独和迷茫。他投身于战争，投身于暴力和死亡，但很快就开始吓唬自己的战友了。阿尔法要走多远才能向他死去的朋友作出补偿？

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021

A GUARDIAN and THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'This slight book is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of what happens to the souls of men sent to kill and be killed' -- The Times, Historical Fiction Books of the Year

'Extraordinary... full of sadness, rage and beauty' Sarah Waters

Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.

Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?

At Night All Blood is Black is a hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness.

媒体推荐/Comments

"Beguiling . . . Diop realizes the full nature of war―that theater of macabre and violent drama―on the page. He takes his character into the depths of hell and lets him thrive there . . . As violent and disturbing as these encounters are, they are rendered with such artistic grace that one derives a strange pleasure in reading about even the bloodiest of nights." 

——Chigozie Obioma, The New York Times Book Review

"A stunning new novel about the plight of two Senegalese soldiers in the Great War offers a fresh perspective. It also introduces a singular talent . . . An immersive, propulsive read, one that searingly evokes the terrors of trench warfare, the relentless loss of life, and the irreparable damage inflicted on the human soul . . . Employing language that is, by turn, visceral and lyrical, Diop tells a devastating story of loss and inhumanity while enlarging our understanding of the war to end all wars."

——Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune

"Heartbreaking and poetic . . . [At Night All Blood Is Black] addresses a story woefully absent from French history books – the inner life of African troops who fought in the French trenches in the first world war." 

——Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian

“Spare and devastating, At Night All Blood Is Black by French Senegalese author David Diop is a bone-chilling anti-war treatise . . . Resonates far beyond the geographic, political, racial and historical details . . . Diop has an ideal translator in Anna Moschovakis, who renders his prose into a gorgeously disturbing devolution of humanity. Overlapping bildungsroman, fever dream, morality tale and historical record, Diop creates an outstandingly affecting, genre-defying nightmare.” 

——Shelf Awareness (starred review)

作者简介/Author

大卫-迪奥普出生在巴黎，在塞内加尔长大。他是波城大学艺术、语言和文学系主任，他的研究课题包括十八世纪法国文学和十七、十八世纪欧洲对非洲的表述。《夜晚血液都是黑的》是他的第二部小说。

David Diop was born in Paris and was raised in Senegal. He is the head of the Arts, Languages, and Literature Department at the University of Pau, where his research includes such topics as eighteenth-century French literature and European representations of Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At Night All Blood Is Black is his second novel.