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Season of migration to the north

Salih, al-Tayyib2009
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After many 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, 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 in the early part of the twentieth century, 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.
Main title:
Season of migration to the north / Tayeb Salih ; translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies ; introduction by Laila Lalami.
Author:
Salih, al-Tayyib, authorJohnson-Davies, Denys, translatorLalami, Laila, 1968-, author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
New York : New York Review, c2009.New York : New York Review, [2009].©2009
Collation:
xx, 139 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First published in Great Britain by the Heinemann African Writers Series, 1969.Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9781590173022 (paperback)1590173023 (paperback)
Dewey class:
892.736
LC class:
PJ7862.A564
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
419428
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Library at the DockFictionSALIOn loan - Due: 25 Jul 2026
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