At Night All Blood Is Black

WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

At Night All Blood Is Black (French: Frère d'âme, lit. 'Soul brother'), a novel by French author David Diop. First published in French on August 16, 2018, by Éditions du Seuil and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens that same year. The English translation by Anna Moschovakis won the 2021 International Booker Prize. It was published in the UK by Pushkin Press and in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The novel centers on Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese Tirailleur who loses his close friend Mademba Diop while fighting in World War I.

Selected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop’s English-language, historical fiction debut At Night All Blood is Black is a “powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel” (Livres Hebdo) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War.