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At Night All Blood Is Black

David Diop
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historical fiction war memoir past tense first POV ~119 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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visceral bleak melancholic

A dark historical fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 95
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count29,761
Page count~119 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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