Season of migration to the north: Author(s) Tayeb Salih: Year of publication: Publisher: Penguin Classics: City of publication: London, England: ISBN: This book is a place of encounter, a journey, and a dialogue between Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, and Mohammad Omar Khalil’s etchings which pay tribute to this famous literary work. Tayeb Salih’s widely esteemed novel was first published in the pages of . In Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, relations between men and women are characterized by violence. During his time in England, the Sudanese protagonist of the novel, Mustafa Sa’eed, has a number of relationships with English women that end in death or murder.
Tayeb Salih's novel "Season of Migration to the North" suggests immediately by its very title that something has gone awry. Nature has been perverted, and 'migration' instead of going South has gone North. To Europe, that is. And Europe, in its influence on the best minds of Africa and the Middle East, is the source of this. A first reading of Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North can be a bewildering experience. The episodic manner in which the story is laid out means that important information about the characters and their past is left out, thus giving the reader a sense of being lost in a strange country where he has lost his bearings. Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih pres-ents a different, but not inconsistent, narrative: his novel Season of Migration to the North suggests that the lure of the West, in the case of England, consists in its accommodation of emotional distance. Even though Tayeb Salih's literary work acknowledges the role of.
Season of Migration to the North is a novel by Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, first translated to English in It has been voted the “Most Important Arab Novel of the 20th century” by a panel of experts. It begins when the unnamed narrator returns from his schooling in London to his native village, Wad Hamid. In Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, relations between men and women are characterized by violence. During his time in England, the Sudanese protagonist of the novel, Mustafa Sa’eed, has a number of relationships with English women that end in death or murder. Written by Tayeb Salih, the novel ‘Season of Migration to the North’ as described by The Observer “is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions.”. The novel is set both in England and the Sudan, showing the stark social differences within these two locations.
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