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. Tayeb 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. Denys Johnson-Davies has published more than twenty-five volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature. He lives in Cairo.

Season of Migration to the North

Literature & Fiction

Salih, Tayeb

Mythology & Folk Tales

Lynne Rienner Publishers

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The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Three Continents Pr

'"Season of Migration to the North" is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies' - "Observer".

Contemporary

Michael Kesend Pub Ltd

Many of these authors are major literary figures in their own countries and the Arab world, who have broken with taboos and censorship, and established standards of innovation that have encouraged younger generations of authors. Pain, hardship, heartache, humour, identity, joy, loss and strategies for survival are universal themes and all are represented here, writes Peter Clark, who edited and introduces the stories, and is one of the thirteen translators of the volume.

Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories from North Africa

Choukri, Mohamed

Ez-Eldin BA, Mansoura

Genre Fiction

Banipal Books

Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif Bastawrous, sometimes known as Michael Joseph and sometimes as Ahmed Mansi Yousif. Playing Hardy to Salih's Laurel Mansi takes centre stage among memorable 20th-century arts and political figures, including Samuel Beckett, Margot Fonteyn, Omar Sharif, Arnold Toynbee, Richard Crossman and even the Queen, but always with Salih's poet "Master" al-Mutanabbi ready with an adroit comment. "Mansi casts fresh light on the experiences and attitudes of a key generation of emigré and exiled Arab writers, thinkers and activists in the West" - Boyd Tonkin

Mansi: A Rare Man in his Own Way

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Banipal Publishing

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.

Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)

United States

NYRB Classics

“The Wedding of Zein” unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih’s tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that he will be getting married—Zein the freak, Zein who burst into laughter the moment he was born and has kept women and children laughing ever since, Zein who lost all his teeth at six and whose face is completely hairless, Zein married at last? Zein’s particular role in the life of the village has been the peculiar one of falling in love again and again with girls who promptly marry another man. It would be unheard of for him to get married himself. In Tayeb Salih’s wonderfully agile telling, the story of how this miracle came to be is one that engages the tensions that exist in the village, or indeed in any community: tensions between the devout and the profane, the poor and the propertied, the modern and the traditional. In the end, however, Zein’s ridiculous good luck augurs an ultimate reconciliation, opening a prospect of a world made whole. Salih’s classic novella appears here with two of his finest short stories, “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” and “A Handful of Dates.”

The Wedding of Zein (New York Review Books Classics)

Dramas & Plays

Titlee: SAISON DE LA MIGRATION VERS LE NORDAuthor(s): Tayeb SalihPublisher: Actes SudPublishing year: 1999Sate: Second Hand - GoodISBN : 9782742709083Comment: Former library book. Soiling on the side. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.  Ammareal sells online second hand books provided by our partners which are associations and lbraries.A portion of the price of each book is donated to our partners or to charities.What we do not sell is given, what we do not give is recycled.

Saison de la migration vers le nord (Babel) (French Edition)

Actes-sud

Prise entre les rites immémoriaux et le monde moderne, la vie d'un village soudanais et de ses habitants, personnages hauts en couleur.\nFrom the Back Cover\nPrise entre les rites immémoriaux et le monde moderne, la vie d'un village soudanais et de ses habitants, personnages hauts en couleur.

Saison de la migration vers le Nord

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bandarshah

History & Criticism

UNESCO

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Season of Migration to the North

The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories

Season of Migration to the North

Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories from North Africa

Mansi: A Rare Man in his Own Way

Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)

The Wedding of Zein (New York Review Books Classics)

Saison de la migration vers le nord (Babel) (French Edition)

Saison de la migration vers le Nord

Bandarshah