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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 892.736
Fabric Type: 9781590173022
Legal Disclaimer: 1590173023
Maximum Color Depth: NYRB Classics
Metal Type: NYRB Classics
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 184
Total External Bays Free: April 14, 2009
Total Firewire Ports: NYRB Classics
Total Parallel Ports: April 14, 2009
NYRB Classics
Features:- ISBN13: 9781590173022
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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.
Average Rating: 
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It seems to me that most of these five-star reviewers are praising the book they want this to be rather than the book it actually is. This is definitely not a Heart of Darkness. I have read Heart of Darkness. Nor is this even remotely an Invisible Man. Invisible Man led us step by step through the concrete experiences and cultural conflicts that ultimately came to define the main character. In this book the only concrete experiences are those in the village on the Nile in the Sudan, (and these ... Read More
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This is truly an undiscovered gem. As an immigrant, the problems associated with clash of cultures have always interested me. This book looks unflinchingly at this. Written in a very economical way, this book portrays both the problems of the west and of the east in very few pages. He seems to say that the solution to problem of culture clash is not picking one over the other, but a synthesis of the two that works for each person.
It is a pity that this book is not as talked about as ... Read More
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This novel was published in Arabic in 1966 and translated into English in 1969 by Denys Johnson-Davies. It's been called one of the major Arabic novels written in the 1960s as well as an important novel on the subject of a non-Westerner's journey to and return from the West.
The first 30-odd pages were superb, introducing deftly the world of the present-day village in Sudan and one character's earlier years and travel to Europe. Throughout the novel, the atmosphere of the village was conveyed ... Read More
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I never received my book and i even payed more for the book to come faster!
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I stumbled upon this book when I found it on the IB World Literature list and among the teachable (but until I attempted it, untaught) books in an international school. Looking for new material, I took it home over the summer with a stack of several others, the covers of which were far more inspirational. The look of it put me off and it was the last book in the pile that I read, but none of the other works were so immediately or so viscerally appealing; none made me so deliciously uncomfortable. I decided ... Read More
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