Title: Mawsim al-hijrah ilá al-shamāl
First published: 1969
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.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Modern fiction, Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology, Unassigned Title, African, Literature & Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction (fictional works by one author), New York Times reviewed, Africa, fiction, North and south, Village communities, Sudanese, Civilization, Arabic fiction
LC classification: PJ7862 A554 M313 1970