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Diop at night all blood is black6/4/2023 But his strange practice of bringing back each victim's severed hand with the rifle it fired convinced them he was an evil sorcerer. At first, Alfa's fellow "Chocolats," as they were known, were impressed by his boldness and cunning. Mademba begged Alfa to end his suffering by slitting his throat, but Alfa couldn't bring himself to do that to his "more-than-brother." Tormented by the failure, Alfa took it out on the enemy by sneaking across "pools of blood" every night to gut German soldiers with his machete. The book opens on a note of anguish, with Alfa recalling his shameful inability to help his childhood friend Mademba Diop, who was eviscerated on the battlefield. Alfa Ndiaye, a young Senegalese man recruited into the French army as a rifleman, confronts the madness of World War I and his role in that madness.
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