citizendougal 's review for:

At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop

4.0

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A bleak, brutal and visceral meditation on the horrors of war and the corruption of duty and conscience. The narrator’s descent into madness is conveyed in an interesting repetitive and rhythmic narrative style which has the driving qualities of an incantation or the sense of a hunched mental patient muttering and rambling as they rock backwards and forward on their heels…