WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction

Nominated for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award

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

A GUARDIAN and THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

We think that ‘At Night All Blood is Black’ is horrible and really good at the same time. If you look at the reviews you see a thesaurus of unpleasant words - harrowing, visceral, gruesome. So it feels odd to recommend reading it, but you really should. It takes a familiar sort of story, First World War trench warfare, told from a non-typical perspective - a Senegalese soldier fighting for France. That kind of alternative version of something you already know is always worth a look, but this is an excellent book in its own right. If you are up for a story on the very horrible end of war, this is the book for you.