Season of migration to the North
Season of migration to the NorthTayeb Salih
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Season of migration to the North (1969)

Tayeb Salih

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

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.

ISBN:
9781590173022
Length:
169 pages

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Reviews2

Jack Edwards
Loved it

I love books that are kind of like in conversation with other books like I just recently read my dark Vanessa which is kind of in conversation with Lolita by nabakov and season of migration to the north really seems to be in conversation with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness but it's like a reversal so it's about going up the Nile towards the UK and so it's sort of about imperialism and colonialism and how people who came from colonized lands to the UK were treated as super exotic and wild and fascinating and they were kind of objectified because of that this book is really great.

WhatKamilReads
Loved it

while I found it dark moving passionately describing what society overtaken by hateful ideology that recreates itself in Reverse in the main protagonists of types elite novel I thought it was brilliant