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Beyond the Door of No Return

by David Diop

National Book Award for Translated Literature · 2023 · Shortlist

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Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop.

About the Author

David Diop is a French-Senegalese novelist and academic born in Paris in 1966. He won the International Booker Prize in 2021 for *At Night All Blood Is Black*, a short, intense World War I novel told from the perspective of a Senegalese tirailleur. The novel explores colonial trauma, friendship, and madness. Read more →

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