num_pages: 169
description: Salih's shocking and beautiful novel reveals much about the people on each side of a cultural divide. A brilliant Sudanese student takes his mix of anger and obsession with the West to London, where he has affairs with women who are similarly obsessed with the mysterious East. Life, ecstasy, and death share the same moment in time. First published in Arabic in 1969.
language: English
title: Season of Migration to the North
titlecomplete: Season of Migration to the North
genres: 20th Century, Africa, African Literature, Novels, Literature, School, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Sudan
ratings_count: 27709
places: Sudan, North Africa
publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers