丁香园AV History Reads is a Public Book Club that discusses timely works of historical interest to bring the study of history to the community.
This year, we will be reading the award-winning At Night All Blood is Black (MacMillian, 2020), by novelist and historian David Diop, and, along with our panel of experts and scholars, examining the book in its historical context.
About At Night All Blood is Black:
"Harrowing . . . [At Night All Blood Is Black] confronts the historical image of Black soldiers by stretching barbarism to its ironic limits . . . What seems most pointed in Diop鈥檚 novel is its exploration of what it meant for West African men to fight side by side, and to grieve one another." 鈥擡mmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books
"So incantatory and visceral I don鈥檛 think I鈥檒l ever forget it." 鈥擜li Smith, The Guardian | Best Books of 2020
Thursday, October 27th | 630PM | Online Event
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At Night All Blood is Black is available at and , as well as your local bookstore