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(0)David Diop
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English
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In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
OBD Los Angeles Times 2020 Book Prize Winners and Finalists - ADULT
OBD Los Angeles Times 2020 Book Prize Winners and Finalists - ADULT
Description
A "Chocolat" soldier with the French army during World War I, Senegalese Alfa Ndiaye's friend Mademba Diop is in the same regiment. Injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind. He sees this refusal as cowardice. To avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, every night Alfa sneaks across...