Season of Migration to the North

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Season of Migration to the North

Author(s): Tayeb Salih (Author), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator)

  • Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
  • Publication Date: July 1 1980
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 169 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0894101994
  • ISBN-13: 9780894101991

Book Description

Salih’s shocking and beautiful novel reveals much about the people on each side of a cultural divide. A brilliant Sudanese student takes his mix of anger and obsession with the West to London, where he has affairs with women who are similarly obsessed with the mysterious East. Life, ecstasy, and death share the same moment in time. First published in Arabic in 1969.BRbrbrTayeb Salih was born in 1929 in the Northern Province of Sudan. He studied at the University of Khartoum and London University and has served as head of drama in the BBC s Arabic Service and director-general of information for the state of Qatar.brDenys Johnson-Davies has published more than twenty-five volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature. He lives in Cairo.

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About the Author

Tayeb Salih, a native of Sudan, was one of the most acclaimed of contemporary Arab writers. In 2001, Season of Migration to the North was selected by the Arab Literary Academy in Damascus as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century. The late Denys Johnson-Davies published more than twenty-five volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature.

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