'This slight book explodes with extraordinary force - readers will not forget it in a hurry' - The Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month

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

'So incantatory and visceral I don't think I'll ever forget it' -- Ali Smith, Guardian, Books of the Year

'Heartbreaking and poetic' - Guardian

'From the very first pages, there is something beguiling about At Night All Blood Is Black... By the time we reach its shocking yet ultimately transcendent ending, the story has turned into something mystical... More than a century after World War I, a great new African writer is asking these questions in a spare yet extraordinary novel about this bloody stain on human history' - Chigozie Obioma, New York Times Book Review

'A short, powerful novel... Diop presents a world with no firm dividing line between courage and madness, murder and warfare; the most dedicated killers are awarded the Croix de Guerre. Alfa's final transformation, as he attempts to atone for his guilt over the death of his friend, is unexpected, poetic - and chilling' - Spectator

'An unrelenting take on war, race, masculinity, and colonialism... Diop's short, sharp, and serrated novel is a visceral dramatization of how our humanity and inhumanity are forever intertwined' - Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sympathies

'Visceral, harrowing, yet absolutely riveting' - Refinery29

'Spare and devastating... An outstandingly affecting, genre-defying nightmare' - Shelf Awareness

'A powerful, truthful look at the meaningless horror of war from the perspective of those whose experience as soldiers from colonial countries has been so undervalued and unexplored' - Culturefly

'This haunting tale of a Senegalese man's experience in WWI is a poetic look at the horrors of war and its effect on mental health' - Buzzfeed