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A brutal education: At Night All Blood is Black, by David Diop, reviewed

The appalling slaughter of the Great War turns an innocent Senagalese boy into a sadistic serial killer in this short, powerful novel

David Diop. Credit: Alamy 
issue 21 November 2020
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  • At Night All Blood is Black

    David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis

    Pushkin, pp. 192, £14

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