Season of migration to the north
By: by Tayeb Salih ; introd. by Laila Lailami ; translation by Denys Johnson-Davies.
Contributors: Johnson-Davies, Denys.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: Review Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781590173022
Work titles: Mawsim al-hijrah ilá al-shamāl.
Description: After years of study in Europe, the young narrator returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood--the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.
Notes: Translated from Arabic.