Tayeb Salih
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| Original Title: | موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال |
| ISBN: | 0435900668 (ISBN13: 9780435900663) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | North Africa |
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After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North 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.But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.
Season of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.
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| Title | : | Season of Migration to the North |
| Author | : | Tayeb Salih |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1970 by Heinemann (first published 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Novels. Northern Africa. Sudan. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 18949 Users | 2423 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Season of Migration to the North
Oh. Lord. How does one review a book which culminates in (view spoiler)[three highly symbolic and parallel deaths (hide spoiler)] and (view spoiler)[an attempt at suicide, which symbolizes characters rebirth (hide spoiler)]?My experience with Season of Migration to the North was somewhat similar to reading The Time of the Doves, which just like this book is hailed the best book of the twentieth century written in its language: I approached both with expectations which werent met. I feel,Rating: 3.25* of fiveThe Book Report: A young Sudanese man, away in England studying for a university degree, returns in some disgrace to his native Nile-side village to lick his wounds. Mustafa, the village Scheherezade, tells the amorous adventures that were his years in the then-colonial power of England. A tragedy occurs, and life isn't the same. Or is it? Will it be? The last three pages of the book are a breathtakingly lovely statement of that question. My Review: Published in 1966, the
This novel is one of comparisons: colonial vs post-colonial; youth vs age; male vs female; agrarian vs the culture of the city; but it is also a lyrical story of people living by the Nile as their forefathers had for centuries. So many influences at play here.Mustafa Sa'eed used the education provided by the British to leave for England and conquer--he wrote books, taught the British young, captivated British women, but ultimately returned to the Sudan. The Narrator follows a similar route but
This book was one of the group reads for the Goodreads group "The World's Literature." It is also a book for me to check off Sudan from my dwindling list of African countries I still need to read a book from. Originally published in Arabic in 1966 and translated into English in 1969, the narrator of this novel has recently returned to the village of his upbringing, after being educated in Cairo and London. His re-entry into his old life isn't completely seamless, and there is one man living
موسم الهجرة الی الشمال = Mawsim al-Hijrah ilĂ¢ al-ShamĂ¢l = Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih Season of Migration to the North is a classic post-colonial Arabic novel by the Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih. In 1966, Salih published his novel, the one for which he is best known. It was first published in the Beirut journal HiwĂ¢r. The main concern of the novel is with the impact of British colonialism and European modernity on rural African societies in general and Sudanese culture and
What an astonishing novel!In a different - but somehow similar- way, Salih and Conrad went deep down to represent colonialism in a breathtaking manner. In his Heart of Darkness, Conrad tells the story of a white man who goes through the Congo river to reach Africa, while in this novel, Salih tells the story of a black man who goes through the Thames river to reach England. However, the seeking reader is not able to find neither light nor darkness in both places.Mustafa Saeed and the narrator
heart of darkness backwards. one of my favorite books ever. just try doing better than "i want to liberate africa with my penis". just try.
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