![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist is accused of sorcery and all of us, we judges, did feel this book had somehow put a spell on us. It is an extraordinary piece of narrative, very powerful, very compelling. “Your emotions are all jangled up, your mind is being opened to new thoughts. “The book is frightening – reading it, you feel you are being hypnotised,” Hughes-Hallett said. That is why I was always very interested by all the tales and accounts which gave one access to a form of intimacy with that particular war,” he recently told the BBC.Ĭhair of judges, the historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett, called At Night All Blood Is Black “an extraordinary novel”. ![]() “He never said anything to his wife, or to my mother, about his experience. Diop was inspired to write the book by his Senegalese great-grandfather’s silence about his time in the war. Approximately 135,000 Senegalese tirailleurs fought in Europe, with 30,000 killed. ![]()
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