Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
A stranger returns to the Nile carrying a violent London past.
An unnamed narrator returns to his Nile village to find an enigmatic stranger, Mustafa Sa'eed, whose violent years as a student and seducer in London gradually surface. Salih reversed the colonial voyage of Conrad and others, turning the gaze back on Europe and the wounds of empire. Written in Arabic, it was later voted the finest Arabic novel of the twentieth century and remains central to Sudanese and Arab letters.
- Author
- Tayeb Salih
- First published
- 1966
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- East, Southern and North African Literature
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